The „lifelong“ concept
Yet human satisfaction is firmly built on this misconception, and the bad judgment that comes out this misconception about what is really important in life, is passed with frightened glances and important head nods from tot to tot, grandmother to grandfather, from dad to mom and from teacher to professor.
We all know the painful moments when something leaves us or we are leaving something or someone. A beauty, a relationship, a dog, an apartment, a memory, a job, a child, a life …
The pain of these moments seems to taste sweet when… :
1. … we think that what replaces outgoing will be more luxurious, more intelligent, more beautiful, more permanent, in short, we’ll get better till the end of our lives, at least! (From this belief comes the concept of the eternal paradise and other similar attractions.)
2. … we perceive the loss itself as the perfect gift we receive from life, which is not what we usually plan to do, it usually just happens to us. (Is this a state of human happiness? The utter confusion of a civilized man? The ability to fully live an ever-disappearing presence?)
Everything I write here is no great discovery, nor has it any practical, lifelong meaning. It is just a small reflection in the fleeting moment between an inhale and exhale, Letna and Zizkov, plum cake and coffee, a charming shopgirl and her unique life, that she knows and no one else in the world.
