the truth about 'forever'-meaning
When i picked up this book i really did not know what it was about but i found the title and cover to be catchy so i decided to read it.
"That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening."
No one really knows what forever is. This quote really makes you think about your forever. It made me think about life in general. Where i am in it and if I'm happy with what I am doing. To me it means make the best of every moment because you never know when its your last. Just like the saying "carpe diem". Just ask yourself, if you died today would you be happy with everything just the way it is. Then go from that and thats when you can start the change.
Meaning of Forever
What you wrote, Christina, reminds me of a book I just finished "Just in Case" by Meg Rosoff. David, the character in Rosoff's book, becomes convinced that his fate is a horrible death that will come about soon. He changes his name from David to Justin to try to fool fate and to avoid this tragic end. He becomes so obsessed with avoiding tragedy that he cannot live. He withdraws into himself to the point that he might as well not be living because he really isn't living. That is the opposite of the philosophy that one doesn't know what is coming but one should live each day to the fullest so there are no regrets that one hasn't done or achieved what one wanted to do. Often one hears people wishing their lives away -- I wish it were the weekend, I wish it were summer vacation, I wish I were in high school, I wish I were in college, I wish I were married, I wish I had a house, I wish I had children. They postpone their happiness, instead of just being happy in the now. Life is made up of all those moments; wasting time is wasting life. Worrying about things that are really insignificant and ignoring the important things -- like family and friends -- is also wasting life.