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Today is the last day of this year. It is the latest in a series of last days, and on this annual last day I am again unable to sleep. I've been unable to sleep on every one of these annual last days since I awoke to the immensity of the concept. On this last day in particular I was struck with the observation that all this finality is very arbitrary. This day is only final in the eyes of a human because a human said it should be. 'Why would we impose such laws?' It isn't but a short chain of logical jumps before I'm left, yet again, admiring the vast, grand and wondrous machinations humans use in an effort to impose order on what is apparently chaos. Of course, faced with the scale of these plans inevitably leaves me feeling finite, insignificant and otherwise melancholy.

So, Dakka, how does the end affect you?

It doesn't.

Besides, there is more vacant space within an atom than it's content. therefore in the Universe, there is considerably more 'nothing' than there is 'something'.

Me, I shall continue to blunder my way through my finite time upon this world before shuffling off and my existence ceases to be, returning me to being more nothing.

DarkHound wrote:Today is the last day of this year. It is the latest in a series of last days, and on this annual last day I am again unable to sleep. I've been unable to sleep on every one of these annual last days since I awoke to the immensity of the concept. On this last day in particular I was struck with the observation that all this finality is very arbitrary. This day is only final in the eyes of a human because a human said it should be. 'Why would we impose such laws?' It isn't but a short chain of logical jumps before I'm left, yet again, admiring the vast, grand and wondrous machinations humans use in an effort to impose order on what is apparently chaos. Of course, faced with the scale of these plans inevitably leaves me feeling finite, insignificant and otherwise melancholy.

So, Dakka, how does the end affect you?

I get to leave early. By my count there's only going to be three people in the office.

It doesn't.

Aside from work being nice and quite it's a total non event. I find it incredibly difficult to get worked up over completely arbitrary and ultimately meaningless limits.

Frazzled wrote:I get to leave early. By my count there's only going to be three people in the office.

Thats deep, man.

It means I eat tempura and soba noodles for dinner and o-sechi cuisine for breakfast.

Lord-Loss wrote:

Frazzled wrote:I get to leave early. By my count there's only going to be three people in the office.

Thats deep, man.

Thats me, Deep Thought!

It's just another day.

G

it means it is anyother thursday i go to work for 2 hours then come home and sleep cause im tired.

Well, I guess I'm just being entirely over dramatic.

Just another year. No different from all the other New Years I've experienced. People get drunk, someone's house gets trashed, and we get some pretty fireworks.

Nice and simple.

Oh Gawd Cheeseball is back...

Other then consuming copious amounts of alcohol, even more then regular mind you, it doesn't really change much for me.

Copious amount of alcohol rawk!!!

It is just another day for me. Plus it means the next day its double time for me, $30 USD per hour for 8 hours.