I feel likes these sayings are more of a commentary om how one needs to accept certain things in life and learn to move past them.
If you interpret these sayings as “just wait around without doing anything and the problem will fix itself”, then you’re missing the point. The point is that everything is always changing, and that includes the situations in our lives and how we feel about them.
When you’re at the bottom of a slump, it often feels like it’s going to stay that way forever. But this feeling is an objectively false view of reality. Reminding yourself that “this too shall pass” can help to cut back on the despair and allow you to focus on taking steps to prepare/help the healing process rather than just giving up because right now it seems like it’s pointless, life is suffering, God is a lie but the Devil is real, and everything will suck more and more forever.
It’s this.
To me, saying “this too shall pass” reminds me that life is a journey of good things and bad things my purpose is to experience them all as fully as I can.
Yesterday was great because x, today is shit because y, tomorrow will be new and different because z.
When I’m obsessing and disparing about y, saying “this too shall pass” reminds me that there’s a bigger picture, and that y situation will change just as x did.
I see my life as seasons passing. It just happens.
For Achilles, time wounds all heels.
When I started training jujitsu it was in an old YMCA, and we had to lay out the mats before each class, and put them away afterwards. The mats didn’t fit the floor, and didn’t have that puzzle piece shape, so they would slide around a bit. And sometimes there would be a gap between the mats, so Sensei cautioned us to be aware, lest time wound all heels.
I once went to a proctologist who had a “This too shall pass” plaque on his desk. I decided to trust him, there and then.
When he toasts a glass at dinner he probably says “up bottoms”!
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Yeast crawls
I know this reference!
When I get isekaied I’m going to genetically alter regular house flies and turn them into flies that can seek out any flung projectile and abscond with it for consumption.
I’ll give them the power to travel from wherever and whenever they are to intersect with any weapon thrown against me.
They’ll eat sling stones and will make short work of trebuchet rocks but my time flies really like an arrow.
If only enough time got rid of thought terminating cliches. Guess it’s all just a part of God’s plan…
I cringed even writing that in jest.
It is what it is.
Oh fuck me. I hate this one.
It’s all good. It’s a free country. Gotta break you to make you.
All wounds will be healed with the heat-death.
Until then there is Vengence-balm. Yours for only $100,000 per body. Inquire within.
This is weirdly comforting to me. Suffering may outlast me, but it is not without end.
