Memento Mori
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
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Applied Vanitas
Time passes regardless of our wishes, our intentions, our apprehensions. That is perhaps the most beautifully profound fact of our existence, and one that therefore I view with gratitude.
MANY ARTISTS AND THINKERS ALIKE HAVE, OVER CENTURIES, TRIED TO ENCAPSULATE THIS BEAUTIFUL PROFUNDITY. Vanitasaa Spanish Wikipedia has a far more detailed and preferable entry concerning Vanitas. For those who speak Spanish, see here I do not think that my words can do this subject terrible justice, so rather than trying to encapsulate the potent nature of the subject myself, I will only speak here about what it means to me, interspersing my remarks with art of various forms for us to appreciate.