A friends cat is passing away soon. Of course, the pet will be missed. This got my brain moving on ways to look at things in not such a negative light.

I’ve had the idea in the past that events are locked in history, and can’t be revisited. The idea went that in addition to exploring things geographically in 3 dimensions, you also have to be cognizant of your constant travel through the fourth dimension of time. Your life is like flowing down a river. You can steer yourself around, and see what you want, but you can’t travel back upstream, and once you past something, you can’t revisit it.

But, the important thing about a river is that that something is still there, even after you pass it. Just because you can’t get to it and interact with it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

By analogy, I assert that just because you aren’t presently experiencing something, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. The cat still exists between when it was born (1993?) to 2010. In fact, everything always exists. The fact is everything is going to end someday (morbid as it may seem) it doesn’t stop existing in space time. The cat left its mark on the world, it will always be there.

Christians are way obsessed with future rewards for current hardships. They are even more obsessed with death, and what happens after death. Most people get worried about what happens after one dies. I try to not look at things like that. I’m here now, I’m just experiencing the story of my life. Just because the story will be over one day, doesn’t mean the story stops existing. I’m here, right now, and I will always be here, right now. Its a much more pleasant way to look at the world, and also makes me realize that I have to keep my story fresh and interesting. :)

This isn’t so far away from the Hindu Religious belief of the world, I’m told. Where god is a director and the world is a acted as a some sort of cosmic play. (Not literally, anymore than christians believe god is really a giant bearded man who sits in the clouds).