>>175460413basically, what I'm saying is 'Nothing gold can stay.'
once you understand what that saying actually means, a lot of things make more sense. when I was a kid, I thought, alright, it means that the good times run out.
but I only thought that because I was a kid. it's all I saw, so I painted the phrase with that sort of weak nebbish understanding. because it's true, but the phrase is actually about the nature of things as they leave, not just 'good things go'.
I once had a drunken kickback with some friends and we talked about old times, girls that were the shit in high school and before, all that. It dawned on us that we could actually hook up with those girls now that we were out of school, had our own things going, all that.
I remember getting a bit sad though realizing this. Because it made me consider the truth: hooking up with those girls now wouldn't be the same. It was me at 14 and 15 and 17 and 18 who thought those girls were the shit, but me now? Me now had been around the world, he had seen this and that, and his experience were so broad.
Our experiences change us. We become different people on this journey. But the same way the good goes because we have gone along with it, so goes the bad. Depression stalks you, yes it does, it's the wing overreaching overhead.
But as long as you are making progress, you will always be the fox one step ahead of the hounds. Because depression comes for what you were last, not what you will be.
You need to have a vision of the future, of the world you want, and you need to live in that vision. You need to live your lifestyle in accordance with that vision and philosophy, so that when depression and weakness and iniquity and indolence come for you, they mark nothing because you have gone, long gone.
Because nothing gold can stay.
