Keep Eternity in Mind

A spoken word piece about the mundane stealing your gaze from forever

You know what shocks me?

How easily the mundane steals your mind from eternity. The grocery list, the traffic, the inbox, They crowd out heaven and hell Like background noise drowning out a fire alarm.

Your brain literally cannot fathom infinity. It wasn't built for that math. So what should you do? You think about it anyway. Regularly. Deliberately. You should meditate on forever Because your default is to forget it exists.

There are literal eternal consequences Beyond anything you can comprehend Attached to your life right now. And you're worried about What your parents think? That you wish you made more money? That someone might judge you?

Wake up.

It hit me one day: Most of my relatives who ever lived Are probably not in heaven. That's a wild thing to realize. And once you realize it, You better do something about it.

Because your little existential angst, Your trivial pains, Your fear of awkward conversations, They're not serving you. The things tethering you to this earth Are anchors dragging you down.

I watch people obsess over longevity treatments, Desperate to squeeze out 120 years, While ignoring the eternity that follows.

That's the worst trade in history.

Your life is like a dot in a long timeline. No, even that's too generous. Infinity can't even be mapped against finite time. There's no ratio. There's no comparison. Your 80 or 120 years next to forever Is less than nothing.

So why are you optimizing for the dot While gambling with the everything?

Keep the end in mind. Keep eternity in mind. Think about where your soul is going More than you think about your weekend plans.

Because one day the mundane ends. And forever begins.

Where will you be standing?

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"What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?" — Mark 8:36