TheBanyanTree: Life Goes On

[B Drummond]

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This week held a special day for me. 

Coming home from another country where language and culture are so different 
is always a profoundly happy but, at the same time, sad affair.  

It is a cliche', I know,  but it's common use -- or abuse -- does not diminish 
in the least the unequivocal truth that 

  people are the same the world over

Human nature being that it is, I thought I would exhibit one of its traits 
(hankies out now, please)  and bore you to tears with a narrative of the 
obvious, based solely upon yet another personal experience.

On another unrelated note, I got to thinking about life the other day.  (I 
kinda' couldn't help it as I'd been made to take note that I'd officially 
made yet another trip around the sun.) I wondered if someone else had ever 
had thought about it this way:

I'm told that matter can not be created nor destroyed.  I'm told that energy 
and matter are the same thing in different forms.  One can be converted into 
the other with the right methods but they after their conversions they still 
remain and are not ever destroyed.

What if life is the same?  That is to say, what if it can never truly be 
destroyed, only changed in its "form"  -- or at least our perception of it in 
that new form.

Am I talkin' coming back as another creature? 

No, just wondering if life, a part of this universe (part of the universe we 
can sense, that is) is not as eternal as all the rest of it.



 bd
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