Contrary to the title of this post, this has nothing to do with Sundays or smiling for that matter. And with that out of the way: A friend once asked me why we should try for anything when we know that everything will end eventually. I think the only logical answer is that we should try because the world does not exist in our head. In heads everything is structured and planned according to your hopes and expectations but these dreams rarely make a safe transition to reality. We should try because after countless years, after our bodies catch up with our minds, all that will be left for us is what we did and did not do. All our memories will work like foreign imagery; cities we have vague recollections of, polaroids we have to shake in our hand. And when we grow old all our experiences will be transmuted into little snippets of dialogue, our retinas will fire countless images, our hearts will exist as uneven shards, each one belonging to a different person. So everything will end in the end. We cannot affect eventuality. There is nothing we can do to preserve permanence or life on earth. But there will be no more regret left. We will look for it but we will never be able to find it.
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