Existential Bummer

[icy]

Existential Bummer

This video will possibly inspire you, make you tear up, and convince you to go out and start living life to the fullest -- all in three minutes.

[RedLantern]

That things change is the reason why we suffer in this world when we change our understanding and our way of living,then we can completely enjoy our life in each moment.The evanescence of things is the reason you enjoy your life.
What a startling thought that the very evanescence of things can be a cause for joy,and a way  to see this ever-changing,ever-aging world as a thing of beauty.A plastic flower is superficially pleasing,but only the living flower,shedding its its petals and fading away at the very peak of its blossoming,is truly beautiful.This insight is the aesthetic dimension of Buddhist teaching and also a source of its ethics.
The truth of universal change and passing away is timeless,so is the need for human beings to treat each other with kindness and respect.Thank you for sharing this inspiring video.

[icy]

If watching this video does inspire, it will propel us to drop everything else and work towards enlightenment for we would realise the transient of all things and the impermanence of a precious human life. 

Death will come regardless of whether or not we have made time for spiritual practice. Although life is short, it would not be so bad if we had plenty of time for spiritual practice, but most of our time is taken up with sleeping, working, eating, shopping, talking, and so on, leaving very little time for pure spiritual practice. Our time is easily consumed by other pursuits until suddenly we die.

[Freyr Aesiragnorak]

This presenter's take on the "existential bummer" is admiring but futile in the end. Even though he realises impermanence, he is still clinging to his needs and wants.

"Everything disolves in meaninglessness when you think about the fact that impermenance is really a real thing. Perhaps the greatest existential bummer of all is entropy."

Succinctly spoken but "raging against the dying of the light" is surely futile. If we can truly see the impermanence in our surroundings then we should do even more spiritually. We should want others to be free of the ignorance of not knowing impermanence but work even harder for those that know impermanence but are too scared to ACCEPT it.