Nothing lasts

Nothing lasts. Everything fades. Everything. Whether it takes years or merely a moment, it doesn't matter, because it will fade. It's not forever. How could it be? We aren't even forever. I've realized that time is our enemy as well as our ally. It can dull our greatest and wash away our worst. It takes everything and it makes everything, but it's not in control. We are. It can take away love and it can take away hate, it can take away beauty and it can make age, and it can take us, but we are still in control. All of those things are obviously beyond our control, but that doesn't mean we should be dependent on it. That doesn't mean we should spend all of our time preparing and expecting and worrying. What it does mean is that we get to choose. It means we shouldn't do anything, there should be no "shoulds". It means we get to do whatever we like. We get to decide. We don't decide what we get or how it's given to us or how long it will last, all we get to decide is what to do with it while we have it. So we should do what makes us happy for as long as it will make us happy, because nothing lasts. Someday everything will fade and sometimes things will fade and we'll fade with them and somethings things will fade and we'll stay exactly the same. And in the end, it will all work out or it won't. And if it doesn't, we should start over. Because we get to decide. There are no rules to this thing and there are no accidents. It's ours. And we only get one. So do what makes you happy, or don't. The beauty is, it's our choice. There are no rules.