There is song by the Australian band “Youth Group” entitled “Forever Young”. You can see the Youtube video below:
You can find the lyrics here
The song is a moving, yet depressing expression of existentialistic angst over our temporal existence:
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Sooner or later they all will be gone
why don’t they stay youngIt’s so hard to get old without a cause
I don’t want to perish like a fleeing horse
Youth’s like diamonds in the sun
and diamonds are forever
Songs like this make you reflect on your own life and contemplate where is it all going…. You wonder whether anything you experience truly lasts, is not everything ultimately futile and fleeting?
In mid thought over this issue, I went to go read my email and the first email that came up was the following:
Without End
By Tzvi Freeman
Ask the wise men of many cultures, and they will tell you that all is temporal, all will pass, there is nothing in this world to cling to, only to transcend.
Ask a sage of the Torah and he will tell you it is not true. The vanities of time, the failures of life, they all pass as clouds on a windy day, but truth lives forever.
This is the meaning of the thirteenth of the thirteen principles of our faith, the belief that those who lived true lives will live again, in a real and corporeal way. It is a rejection of temporalism, a confirmation that there are things in the world that really matter, that have endless meaning and absolute purpose.
Whenever a G-dly act is performed, all involved are elevated beyond time. Save a life–you are Noah saving the entire world. Feed weary travelers–they are the angels coming to visit Abraham and Sarah. And Abraham and Sarah are hosting them with you.
In fact, all those who had truth in their lives are here with us today. It is only that we are so much a part of this river of time, we cannot lift our heads to see above it.
That my friends is a religious experience….