02-22-2020, 02:24 PM
(02-21-2020, 11:25 PM)flofrog Wrote: Well, do you think that with old age you start to fowl intense gratitude for whatever wonderful fleeting moments there were, and in that moment of intense gratitude you lose all fear and see your own darkness as one side of normality not fully resolved yet by the grace of gratitude and then ... you kind of get Ra's word where all paradoxes could be resolved ?
I don't think it takes old age to move into a perspective of gratitude, just a willingness to do so. However, yes, time does have a way of making you look back on things in a different light, and I think this extends far beyond the physical lifetime.