The Gifts of Time

I'll turn 70 in four months. Here's my take; There's ambition and there's knowledge gained by experience. Many people are raised by the magical thinking of dogmatic religions, melodramatic movies and other entertainment media on the one hand and actual practical lessons taught in school, by caring parents and helpful friendships on the other hand. As one ages one has more and more varied experiences. If they have ambition and apply practical knowledge, they will feel positive and seek more experiences and more knowledge and they will embody a youthful outlook of pleasure from exploration. If however their experiences conflict with the unlikely ambitions perpetrated by dogma and melodrama, they will shirk from experiences and knowledge and grow older in spirit, thinking themselves as having few reasons to live.

It's basic Eternalist thought. In Eternalism we attempt to envision something that may be impossible; we 'imagine' Time will never end. In attempting to imagine an expanse so great that it has no limits, we surrender to it as an act of love, and find ourselves on the path to true knowledge.