Healing is intended to bring back lost time or rekindle the potential for a different future outcome. We waste time so liberally, as if there is no consequence, and then mourn its loss when made aware of its transience.

Medicine offers time. And time brings both potential pain and joys. The absence of existence potentiates a response of fear in patients yet their wastage of time is wholly under their responsibility – so why mourn for what you are so freely squandering? It is widely recognized that the transient and delicate nature of life is what substantiates its value. However, we become entrapped in our daily consistencies, watching our lives decay, leaving behind a corpse of the city we constructed. The tall skyscrapers, gentle ravines, expressways melded in an intricate map – all wasted. All of it dissociates.

Let us dissociate and not be tethered to this life and its many sorrows or elations. Do not mindlessly let time slip away, time that others would sacrifice everything to keep. We can only slow the decay, but you must orient yourself in a position to make your life perpetual in its transience – to make your memories beautiful in its absence.

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