Marco's Perspective

It's funny how dating a person much younger than me, particularly in the range of 21-22, seem to be incredibly clingy in terms of the idea of being together because we "love" each other or pretty much having a "strong" emotion, or perhaps "passionate", enough that would seem to be a very reliable ground for persisting through with the relationship.

Maybe we were all meant to live a rather shorter life span, comparable to those who supposedly lived hundreds of human years ages ago, to experience more and get the lessons quick enough, which I believe "living a short life" implies a life full of pain and suffering strong enough that actually shortens our human capacity to live long. Then maybe that meant dying was a process that we could review with a clearer perspective what transpired in our human experience so we could go back in right away and do what still needs to be done.

Why is it that... we still aim for a goal? What for, when we know it (the goal) won't even last "forever" when we get it/achieve it? Perhaps we truly simply are ever curious to "feel" certain things that we really are able to let go of whatever we "have" in any given moment to "obtain" or pretty much just feel/experience the "new" thing, which we as of the moment refer to as the goal. "Curiousity killed the cat." Perhaps if the cat knew it was going to die, whether it was consciously curious or not, maybe the cat should've just devoted it's life into figuring out how not to die. "Seek ye the Kingdom of God first and all these shall be added unto you." Religion seem to really be key in terms of giving the "average Joe" the persistence to not easily give up on this human experience. The idea of the After Life or, better yet, the Everlasting Life is truly anything in the realm of "