A few years ago I read Tuck Everlasting with my middle school students and had them brainstorm a momento mori phrase we could write and put next to the clock by the door, as a reminder that both death was coming and that the more they wished time would go by for class to be over, the more their very lives passed them by. We did a little poll, one phrase won, and I put it up on posterboard by the clock. Only thing is, I can’t remember the phrase. How I wish I could. But time wears away at us all and robs us of the little things, these little memories that make us ourselves, until we exit life as the same tabula rasa we were at birth. Like waves slipping in, and out, leaving nothing but smooth sand left in their wake; a half memory of what used to be, as the cycle of life and tine churns ever on.
my middle school students
had them brainstorm a momento mori phrase we could write and put next to the clock by the door, as a reminder that both death was coming and that the more they wished time would go by for class to be over, the more their very lives passed them by.
Jeez! Are you TRYING to traumatize them? 😄
This is the good shit right here 😫 somehow the pseudo-fatalism squashes my ennui and makes me want to become a beacon of pure love for my fellow lost fireflies winking and blinking in the long, dark night of the cosmos
Hanging on in quiet desperation
Is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over
Thought I'd something more to say-- c/o The Funny Farm
Why isn’t remain ignorant working?!?!?!?!?
Sorry, that setting is not enabled on your model. Have you tried smug sense of superiority instead?
Do I look like I can afford a bmw?
Maybe I can try installing arch on something
Wait ignorance is an option!? How do I sign up!?
I, too, could use some more ignorance, please!
Get into heroin.
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun— Old Pink
Time is a valuable thing
Permanently Deleted
Watch it count down to the end of the day
Thanks for the mid-day existential crisis
I understand.
I feel personally attacked 😿
Yes, I actually intended this as a personal attack specifically for you! So glad you saw it!!
Please tick faster so the void can reclaim my soul from this pain and chaos of reality.
Damn. This hits close to home.
