There is no regret. We should look forward. How many days do each of us have in our whole lives? We can live for 80 years on average. That’s 30,000 days, 2.5 billion seconds. Which one makes you think life is short? The process is more important than the result, because we all have the same result—death. It’s the same destiny.
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Wang Xing, founder of the Chinese social network Renren, in Fast Company, The Facebook of China, January 2011. I’m currently writing a paper on Pascal’s Pensées, exegeting a passage on the “brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which comes before and after” (#68 in the Penguin translation by A.J. Krailsheimer). This last week, during the discussion section of my Christian Ethics class, we had a brief debate about the universality of Pascal’s approach in the book. The above quote from a young man in China gives me even more cause to believe that this sense of the fleeting nature of the human condition is at least a common feeling—one that I myself struggle with, and have written about before. (via jeffbridges) |
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