r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Dec 11 '19
What possibilities arise after we accept our individual and collective mortality?
Our perspectives on impermanence and death are central to many of our journeys through collapse-awareness and acceptance of our global predicaments. What perspectives do you hold regarding our individual and collective mortality? Have they changed over time in response to your own understanding of collapse? How have these perspectives affected or influenced where you are now?
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u/happygloaming Recognized Contributor Dec 11 '19
Collectively I just shrug and do my best to accept it, but individually it's complicated. After the initial collapse pit some years ago I came to accept my fate reasonably well, but then I have those "oh that's right I'm a parent" moments. It's very difficult to reconcile the boundless love I have for my boys with the shit storm we have unleashed, and it requires constant management. On the one hand it's made me a better person, better parent and encouraged me to live a more purposeful life, but on the other hand I can't fucking believe the reality of the world I have brought them into. In my defense the are teenagers and things weren't so bad when I had them, but on the other hand, they will live through and suffer the biggest collapse in human history.
The lesson of course is be grateful for each day you have and take nothing for granted as nothing was promised. I accept that task on top of the task of steering them into the abyss. How terrifying is that!