Paris Hilton doesn't look the same anymore; I don't look the same anymore; no one looks the same anymore. Time really does "suck the life" out of us all. Our looks change; our reaction time lengthens; all of our abilities, to some degree, degrade!
That is the temporal condition -- those of us stuck in time, as creatures of mass and energy, will all degrade until we lose that mass and perhaps even that energy. We will be transformed, somehow, into something we don't know about yet. Some among us have "faith" that it will be a more-refined kind of earth; others of us believe in an "after-life" so esoteric or happily-faith-centered that it is unintelligible to most of us, given our present state of human understanding (and confusion).
So, gravity will rule our bodies. Our cells will begin to function badly, if at all. Our blood pressure will seriously change and for some, implode. For others our ways of knowing and our actual knowledge will both diminish -- and we will end, unwillingly, bereft of most of what we have grown to expect of ourselves. Age will become a slowly ebbing tide rushing out to a vast uncaring sea. Can we conquer or at least attune ourselves to this process? I think we can.
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