the limitations of being mortal

Mankind's desire to gain knowledge and to therefore advance is one of the most important drives that led to our rule over the world. We strive for the unreachable, for what‘s beyond our limits. Whatever it is that one ponders, it remains impossible for one to figure out the true spirit of its being. We attempt it, but the truth is not revealed within this life. For to be alive means to be mortal and being mortal brings limitations. Everything human that has ever been will eventually come to an end. One day, you will die and so will your children and grandchildren and the works they‘ll do and everything they thought to be meaningful. The world is soon to perish, due to the mere stupidity, or, should I say the quintessential functioning of learning processes in humans. We only believe what we can see.

Just take a look at the world with its garbage patches as big as continents, with smoke clouds cutting through the atmosphere, unhinging the natural equilibrium. 
We won‘t change until we see. So, being confronted with the dauntingly dark fate of our planet, what is one to do? Well, so long as our inevitable destiny lays in the future, what is left is to enjoy oneself every moment in hedonistic certainty that in the end our soul will embed its beautiful face in a satin cushion for good.

Every life form strives to grow. What grows lives, and what lives will die. With the great gift of life also comes the limitation thereof, being that death is inevitable. What comes after death is unknown, and the unknown often scares us because it might pose a threat. Like with everything that is uncertain there are essentially two ways of looking at it. You either look at it pessimistically, or optimistically. Most people fear death, but let me ask you what‘s it worth to live in fear? You should not let fear overwhelm and take over your will. I am looking forward to life after death, because I know it‘ll be different, there will be no more pain, no more grievances. Life is a gift handed to us from god and we should embrace it just like we should embrace the gift of death. The gift of being limited and mortal is as beautiful as the wonder of creation. Imagine you would live forever, to see everyone you know and love die eventually. To be estranged from everything you knew to be valid. To see the earth collapse and to still exist. That‘s daunting. 

So being limited is not something we should regret, but rather embrace. In this universe, everything is limited. there are boundaries that can not be exceeded. One of these boundaries is death. We can't see past the point of our death, but we will experience what it's like when we get there. As mortal beings we are limited. We all have expiry dates, and no-one will live forever. Thankfully, because being alive can be hard. Sometimes we wish we'd never been born at all, and some of us even end their own lives.  But what is sure is that everything will be alright in the end. As Virginia Woolf puts it: No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. We are all going to heaven.