Text: Flipping through the books in his spare time
Life is limited, and sometimes I wonder why we ask for eternity.
Hope for eternal life, as if the world is a paradise.
Hope for eternal love, as if this were the true state of emotion.
We all know that there will always be a day to say goodbye to the world, but we never want this day to come.
The root of such reverie is: What is life?
No matter what form of life we look for answers to this question, we always come to similar conclusions.
Whether it is animals, plants, bacteria, viruses... the ultimate meaning of any life activity is: the survival of the individual, and the continuation of genes.
But people do have some differences.
We know that there are some people who do not aim to live with the goal of procreation, or even disdain to live such a life.
There must be a natural controversy about the question of Dink, because of how a group of beings embraces the idea of rebellion against life.
Can't understand, and don't need to understand.
But the emergence and diversification of this rebellion adds to the evidence that human beings are not ordinary lives. The human mind can ultimately take precedence over biologicality and embody inanimate thinking.
Inanimate?
Isn't the greatest non-life on Earth nature? Perhaps, the extraordinary meaning of man finally docked in nature.
Not transcendence, just regression.
Nature encompasses both living and inanimate states, and if we think of life as the only form of natural evolution, then the act of deviating from the life-thinking is a step backwards.
But what if life is just a coincidence?
Sanmao once wrote:
There is no second Sahara in the world, and only to those who love it, it presents its beauty and tenderness to you, and will return your love to you silently with its eternal earth and sky, quietly promise to guarantee you, and may your children and grandchildren be born in its arms.
—— Sanmao, "The Story of the Sahara"
Love is fleeting, and only by embedding this emotion in nature is it worthy of eternity.
Life cannot be eternal unless it understands what it means to return to nature.