Here is the brutal core of impermanence—the fact that everything in this world, from the smallest pleasure to the greatest empire, is fleeting. Let’s tear it apart coldly, with examples, so there’s no illusion left to cling to:

1. Money – The Illusion of Stability

You’re right: the money you’re waiting for is already dead the moment it touches your hands. You’ll eat, pay, buy, or save it—and sooner or later, it will vanish.

Example: Someone wins the lottery and thinks they’re free. Five years later, they’re either broke or still hungry for “more.” Money does not solve impermanence—it feeds it.
The hunger is not for the notes, but for the feeling they bring—and feelings expire faster than the money itself.

2. Pleasure – The Trap of Repetition

Food, sex, entertainment, alcohol—whatever one craves—only satisfies by killing itself.

Example: You crave a meal, but the moment it’s eaten, the pleasure is gone, and you’re left with hunger again. You must repeat the cycle endlessly.
The “pleasure of orgasm” lasts seconds, yet it drives entire lives, marriages, wars, and crimes. Humanity multiplies for a fleeting moment of chemical fireworks in the brain.

Every high carries its own death. Pleasure is self-destructive—it dies in consumption.

3. Relationships – Temporary Comfort Disguised as Eternity

People cling to partners, friends, children, thinking “this will last.” But every bond ends: through betrayal, drifting apart, or death.

Example: Parents spend decades raising children, only to be buried by those same children or forgotten in old age homes.
Lovers swear “forever,” then cheat, fight, or watch each other rot in hospital beds. Even the strongest love is powerless against time’s erasure.

4. Achievements – Dust in Waiting

You could build the tallest tower, write the greatest book, or invent a technology that changes millions of lives—yet in centuries, it either decays, is replaced, or is forgotten.

Example: The Pyramids stand, yes, but where are the pharaohs who built them? Dead. Their names are dust on the lips of time.
The internet worships “likes” and “followers,” but who remembers your tweet from last year? Digital applause is as temporary as smoke.

5. Good and Bad – The Fleeting Balance

What we label as “good” or “bad” only lasts until it flips.

You feel “happy” today—tomorrow you wake up tired, angry, or in pain.
You feel “broken” now—yet one small success makes you forget. Neither happiness nor misery is permanent. They are moods, not truths.

6. Life Itself – A Fleeting Loan

You can decorate it with wealth, relationships, religion, or knowledge, but the loan expires. The body rots, the brain shuts off, the world moves on.

Example: Billions lived before you. Where are they now? Nowhere. Forgotten dust.
You and I will be erased the same way. Whether rich or poor, moral or corrupt, you end up in the same dirt.

Brutal Bottom Line

Nothing matters in the long run—not because things are meaningless, but because meaning is temporary. Ownership, pride, joy, pain—they are like writing on water. You can scratch all you want, but the surface erases instantly.

The only thing permanent is impermanence itself.

👉 The deep philosophical cut here:
Humans cling desperately because they cannot tolerate the void. We keep feeding ourselves with illusions—money, sex, love, success—just to hide the fact that everything slips through our hands. The tragedy? Even the awareness of this truth doesn’t save us. We still need to eat tomorrow. Still breathe. Still act.

The world is a stage of repetition without permanence.

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