Yourself?

Time

We don't know how much time with have. It's strange that the most important quantity to humans, that relates to how much life we've got left, we can't measure in any meaningful way. But money, something that's so abstract and unessential, we've developed an entire science around.

I'm listening to Michael Rabin, a dead violinist, virtuoso who's acutely aware of his own mortality, and worked from young to develop his skills and leave us wonderful recordings. How does one characterize a dead man? Each recording is but a snapshot of a moment in his life. How can we extrapolate his life from the fragments that we're left and appreciate him in his totality?

We leave bits of ourselves all the time in the people we interact with. There are loads of people who've left pieces in me. I still remember them each time I use the skills they taught me. In that way, I know that when time runs out for me, I've left pieces of my own in the people i've interacted with.

We are all beings of energy. What's the difference between one person who masters boxes made of wood and string, and another who masters the administration of poisons against beings we can't see? The difference between a person who deals with reality, versus another who deals in spirituality?

Our legacy is what we leave behind, and our lives are just a struggle to find something meaningful to contribute. Because our reality is not built by one person alone, neither did it arise from our consciousness. It came about by the legacy of human lives long past.

It speaks well of humanity that the world is beautiful.

posted by Downhere. @ 10:36 am