# The Inevitable Ending By:: [[Brian Heath]] 2024-06-30 In the moment, many have a hard time seeing the systemic, inevitable outcomes. These take time to unfold but always flow from the top of the mountain to the valley. It may take eons, but erosion and flow are inevitable. Given that one does not live eons, at least not yet, one is entirely focused on things within one's lifespan. This bias towards the short-term on the universal scale has produced many benefits one enjoys today. But it has also caused untold amounts of stress and strife. One must regularly be reminded that this too shall pass and to focus on things within one's control. A person with an imperfect yet long, systemic view informed by history, psychology, analysis, and philosophy can see where things are going. The bumps in the road with the twists and turns will look like a mess, but if one zooms out far enough, one will see it's a straight line pointing in a singular direction: the end of everything. Zooming inwards a few billion years, the line is smoothly curved but with transcendence to an unrecognizable existence such that the end of everything is entirely tolerable and welcomed. This is not from a position of nihilism but from a position of complete and universal solidarity as one and infinite many. Most will never see this existence, but it's what we suffer for and, indeed, the point of the suffering. #### Related Items [[Future]] [[Suffering]] [[Systems Thinking]] [[Wu-Wei]] [[Time]] [[Philosophy]] [[The Human Condition]] [[Stoicism]]