I memorized the whole thing in school. I’ve forgotten parts, but it really has stuck with me since. But it took a decade or so before the real true impact of it hit home.
Like, as a teen I understand it, King built a statue, was a powerful proud king, had everything, blah blah, now it’s all but gone and only pieces of a statue even remain.
But, the impact of it hit as an adult.
Not even the greatest of kings or warriors or sages can escape the slow erosion of time and sand and all things crumble to dust.
It’s both depressing and empty feeling, but also freeing in a way. Optimistic Nihilism I guess? It’s all going to be dust one day, so be nice and have fun and be whimsical and silly and do what you want.
It does at least give me comfort that even the big evil rulers of our age will one day be long forgotten and but a crumbled relic and some lines in a rotting history book that no one bothers to read anymore.
I memorized the whole thing in school. I’ve forgotten parts, but it really has stuck with me since. But it took a decade or so before the real true impact of it hit home.
Like, as a teen I understand it, King built a statue, was a powerful proud king, had everything, blah blah, now it’s all but gone and only pieces of a statue even remain.
But, the impact of it hit as an adult.
Not even the greatest of kings or warriors or sages can escape the slow erosion of time and sand and all things crumble to dust.
It’s both depressing and empty feeling, but also freeing in a way. Optimistic Nihilism I guess? It’s all going to be dust one day, so be nice and have fun and be whimsical and silly and do what you want.
It does at least give me comfort that even the big evil rulers of our age will one day be long forgotten and but a crumbled relic and some lines in a rotting history book that no one bothers to read anymore.