So you have a full new bottle and before you know it she is empty again I thought this morning when a recently purchased bottle of soft drink in the refrigerator was almost empty again. Everything's moving faster. In my early childhood, a year seemed to be a millennium, in my teenage ages, but during my studies, the realization that time is fleeting grew. Meanwhile, now that I have arrived in my last phase of life time seems to be moving so fast that sometimes I can experience timelessness.
In my childhood I learned that moments, fashion and other ever-changing things will come back. My mother kept a blue suit from the 1950s in the wardrobe in her bedroom. One morning I asked, another small but already very alert boy, why she did so, after all we were now about the mid 1960s and fashion was changing considerably. She replied to me without having to think for a moment about something similar to that fashion is changing, but she was sure that her suit would come back in fashion, because everything always comes back. I remember having my doubts about that, but it did find an interesting answer, which qualified for long-term empirical research, although I did not mention it at that age.
While I am writing this, I remember that sometime in the mid-1990s of the same century that passed, pink suits came into the hands of the more wealthy businesswoman and women who were clearly visible on the political stage. The colour was another, like its wearers, but the model and the status was the same.
In the meantime I have seen my idea from the early eighties, that my way of life describes a circular orbit within a hierarchy of circles further developed and confirmed. Not only through the events in and around me, my personal experiences, but also in the books that I have been reading for several years and the theories in the most broad sense of the word, which I take to myself.
Life, especially a phase of life, is like a garment, which is all too often unfairly discarded as a pass, while it is much more interesting to keep it until it comes in handy. Today's thrift shop is a great alternative, because someone else like that needs your throw-away. So it is also with philosophies, which come and go, contradict each other or even replace each other, to sometimes pay back much and much later. For example, the Tao offers a perspective that has been written for six hundred years before our Christian era by Lao Tse, which is still very useful at this, our time, if not even the solution to the general malaise in which the Western disposable society has long been in existence.
