Post by Yeti on Oct 9, 2023 13:31:15 GMT -5
The Matrix movies are just sci-fi action adventures but there's some lines of dialog pertaining to humanity and human nature that I found insightful or at least true. Neo is taught that everything that has a beginning has an end. There's no exception to that. There will be a time that no humans exist in the universe. Eventually Earth will be gone and our star will die. Given enough billions of years, the universe will die. Ourselves and everyone we know will be gone sooner or later.
I know people that have lost a child. Death is a part of life and everyone we know will die, but there's a natural order to it and we are supposed to outlive our parents, and not the other way around. Fifteen years ago this month a childhood friend passed away at the age of 27. I can't think of anything I dread more than the possibility of having to bury one of my children, and I'm not sure how I'd be able to carry on afterwards.
The only thing I can figure to keep me going would be keeping my child's memory alive. I don't remember where I heard it, but it was alleged that Vikings had a belief that we die twice - the first time when our body dies and the second time when last our name is spoken; the thought evidently being that we live on in the stories told of us and when nobody speaks of us or remembers us further than we are truly gone. My father passed away closer to seven years ago now and my friend passed away fifteen years ago, but they still live on when we speak of them and tell stories of them. I miss them but I won't shy away from talking about them because doing so keeps their memory alive.
I know people that have lost a child. Death is a part of life and everyone we know will die, but there's a natural order to it and we are supposed to outlive our parents, and not the other way around. Fifteen years ago this month a childhood friend passed away at the age of 27. I can't think of anything I dread more than the possibility of having to bury one of my children, and I'm not sure how I'd be able to carry on afterwards.
The only thing I can figure to keep me going would be keeping my child's memory alive. I don't remember where I heard it, but it was alleged that Vikings had a belief that we die twice - the first time when our body dies and the second time when last our name is spoken; the thought evidently being that we live on in the stories told of us and when nobody speaks of us or remembers us further than we are truly gone. My father passed away closer to seven years ago now and my friend passed away fifteen years ago, but they still live on when we speak of them and tell stories of them. I miss them but I won't shy away from talking about them because doing so keeps their memory alive.
