Impermanence Part 2

Today is mth end. So got a bit of time to do some contemplation. So one of the question I thought about is impermanence. Why does impermanence exist? How it come about? In economics, we often talk about how an economic model reach an equilibrium, so can equilibrium be achieved?

Here are my thoughts on these questions. Impermanence means changes happen everytime. So what are the sources of impermanence? Well I can think of two sources. First is environment changes for instance weather, tectonic movement and so on. The second source is we human ourselves.

The weather is always changing on this earth, that is why we have the four seasons, we have the heat wave, the wind, the flood and so on. We know that the land we live on is actually shifting every nanosecond. Just that the movement of the land is so minute we cannot feel it at all. These movements will cause emotions in us humans and we human will change to accomodate these physical changes in the environment. Which bring me to our next sources which is that caused by human.

We human have wants and needs. We human evolves because we want to better satisfy our needs, for instance standing on two feet so that we can travel faster and see further to get food so that we can survive. We humans are able to be all over the world because we are seeking land and food. We farm the lands, hunt animals causing changes in this Earth because we want to satisfy our needs. When we farm lands, started irrigation and build our own house, our basic needs are met and we move further down the chain of needs and eventually our wants that evolves into the Past to the present world. Airplanes, ships, railway, internet are a result of impermanence or changes that we humans want and create.

With these two sources in mind, you can see the whole world are like dominoes that are going in all direction and criss-crossing each other. One of the dominoes was toppled since don't know when and a domino effect has been carried out since then. You can see from here that our actions due to our wants and needs has caused actions of others as well, and their action will cause other action by other people and this domino effect carries on and on.

So you see, there is no way you can stop changes. It just carry on and on and will not stop at all. What we human can then do is to anticipate what could happen and prepare for it. When when something unexpected happen, see if you can improve the situation, if cannot then do nothing and not let your emotions be swayed too much by the unexpected.

So far these are my thoughts on impermanence. Your comments?

Cheers!