I think defining impermanence will probably be valuable and I know that a lot of you are familiar with the term

But even if you're familiar with it, it's always good to

reconsider you know other words that describe the concept that you understand.

Because I find like I like hearing people talk about things that I know quite well because every time that somebody applies a different

set of words to it, it adds a slightly different perspective to the concept and oftentimes I feel like it

broadens my perspective of whatever the thing is and it's a useful way to just kind of keep chiseling away at some of the

nuance and the context of these ideas that are very very rich. So, impermanence is an idea in Buddhism that essentially suggests that everything in existence is always dissolving.

It's always kind of eroding and going back from whence it came.

And a lot of people hear that idea initially and get freaked out by it because they think,

oh well, great.

It's kind of like when you read tell, if you were to tell a kid

that the sun is gonna explode, it's like, oh, cool,

thanks for that bit of information.

Everyone I know and care about and everything I find meaningful,

including myself, are all going to be vaporized by the sun whenever it explodes.

And likewise with impermanence,

you know, whenever we start thinking about that concept,

it's like, oh sweet so everything is going to basically just

rot into nothingness which they're like yeah that's true but that's that's only a small

portion of the story, you know.

And so, you know, we don't have to even look at impermanence through the lens of Buddhism to find it to be true.

You can look at nature, which is where I often like to look to vet these conceptual ideas because these ideas emerge from nature.

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