How Far Is Forever, Really?

How far away is forever?

Close your eyes and think back.

Do you still remember everything you believed in and loved a few years ago, or decades ago?

Back then, perhaps you once thought

Jay Chou’s music was the best music in the world

Street Fighter was the most fun game in the world

Jin Yong’s wuxia novels were the best novels in the world

As long as you worked hard, you would surely achieve great things someday

These were all the forevers we once believed in.

We were all once full of ambition, convinced that one day we would change the world.

But as time passed, you sadly discovered that

in the end, it was the world that changed us.

Forever, forever.

We often say this word casually, but who knows

how far away forever really is?

You once longed for forever, stretching out your fingers to measure it, only to find it may be just that tiny bit.

One bit, one bit, one bit…

What makes up our lives is this dense line of countless points,

points called “now.”

Rather than gazing toward a forever far beyond the horizon,

it is better to do each tiny bit well.

There is only now, no forever.