JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - THE COST OF ATTAINING LIFE AND GROWING OLDER. FINIS.

 

To think of and to see ourselves as a duality, as we might speak of 'your body' or 'my body.' Which suggests that there is a separate 'you' and 'me' to whom the 'physical body' we carry around, or which carries us around, 'belongs.' 

Yes, part of the cost of attaining 'Ergo-sumness' is that we humans acquire and accumulate and form attachments form with things, both organic and inorganic. 

Things which then becomes a part of us, psychologically and emotionally, if not physically.

And herein lies the paradox; the fact that we must lose, be separated from all our perceived 'gains.' 

Such it is that, as we travel through life, depending on how far we have travelled on our way towards our inevitable demise, our personal extinction. 

We will have become separated from and lose some of the 'things' we have 'gained' along the way. 

Until we get to the point of losing, but not becoming separated from ourselves, as we die and are re-absorbed into the dust of infinity. The black hole of meta-physics.

As we age and become old and older, many of us are fated to loosen our attachments and connections with the world and some of the things within it, with which we are built up attachments. 

Our interests in some things which we have grown close to, begins to dissipate, and the world within which we exists and function, becomes smaller and more inward focused. 

It is likely that the extent to which we experience these changes, are dependent on how old we have become, and the experiences and circumstances internal and external environments or states.

So, what is to be said by the fact that, the longer many or most of us do live.  

The more likely we are to lose the connections and attachments we made since our birth, and the greater tendency that we will return to the earlier and more distant connections and attachments? 

Probably this; that the longer established connections, such as those we made in our childhood, are stronger and more susceptible to 'automatic recall' in our advanced years. 

Than those we make in adulthood and later life are.  I guess it also suggests or provide some evidence of a certain circularity to our lives. A return to a state of  a partial 'emptying of our brain' capacity; of who and what we are in relation to the world and the people and things within it. 

With the difference between us and a young child being that, whereas the child's brain and learning capacity is ready to soak up knowledge and develop an identity.  Our brain, in our advanced years, is in a state of decay and dysfunctionality, from which is will not recover.