Everything is in constant flux. Growing, breaking, dying, rebuilding. Energy isn’t created or destroyed, just transformed. It’s an endless cycle.
You’re part of this impermanence too. Biologically, you’re a vessel for DNA. Your cells, your mind, the people around you, the social circles and systems you’re part of — they’re all changing.
And there may not be a plan behind all this. Evolution isn’t tidy or intelligent — it stumbles through messy paths and repeatedly hits dead ends (history repeats itself). Every individual is doing what’s best for themselves, yet somehow evolution seems to enable larger systems of individuals to work.
How can you use this constant movement to your advantage, especially in systems? Where is momentum gathering? What’s insurmountable in its entirety but can be attained incrementally?
Change is inevitable. Make it work for you.
“Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms — up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested — probably once belonged to Shakespeare. A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name… So we are all reincarnations — though short-lived ones. When we die our atoms will disassemble and move off to find new uses elsewhere — as part of a leaf or other human being or drop of dew. Atoms, however, go on practically forever.”
~Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything (Book)
