On Transience

Liz: I did love you, Stephen. 
Stephen: I know. But I still love you. 
Liz: So, love me. 
Stephen: But I miss you. 
Liz : So, miss me. Send me love and light every time you think of me... Then drop it. It won't last forever. Nothing does. 


My favorite scene in Eat, Pray, Love. It says more about how I've been feeling for the past months (or years) than any other scene in this movie... or any movie that I know, for that matter.

It doesn't mean I'm closing myself from relationships altogether. It's just that... I have come to accept that change is inevitable.

"It is an eternal cycle in which matter moves, a cycle that certainly only completes its orbit in periods of time for which our terrestrial year is no adequate measure, a cycle in which the time of highest development, the time of organic life and still more that of the life of being conscious of nature and of themselves, is just as narrowly restricted as the space in which life and self-consciousness come into operation. A cycle in which every finite mode of existence of matter, whether it be sun or nebular vapour, single animal or genus of animals, chemical combination or dissociation, is equally transient, and wherein nothing is eternal but eternally changing, eternally moving matter and the laws according to which it moves and changes." - Fredrick Engels 

Simply put, everything is bound to cease to exist, and we are all bound to move on. The real trap is getting attached to it. Attachment makes it difficult for us to move on. We can't move on because we don't want to.   The moment we accept that all things are transient, we move on -- and we must accept because transience is just how life goes.

Drop it. It won't last forever. Nothing does.