Dancing with the Shadows...

[Big Cat]

  

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Oblivion – nothingness, nonexistence.  What remains when everything is destroyed.  Oblivion is what remains when all else has vanished.  Emptiness; nonbeing.  As a concept, oblivion is an abstract.  If you believe the universe was born or created, that is, it has a definite beginning, what existed before it, if the universe currently includes everything that is?  Oblivion, of course.

  

If we look at “Curse” in the sense of “spell”, “damnation” or “doom”, and put it together with “Oblivion” as nonexistence, or nothingness, which follows life, reality or being, “Oblivion’s Curse” is the doom of nonexistence that occurs to an individual at the end of their life.

  

“Oblivion’s Curse” is the cruel fate of what follows the life of substance:  termination of thought, being, personality, desires.  What once was a vital being, interacting with others and the world, is destined to be erased from existence at the end of life.

  

Oblivion’s Curse is the knowledge that your death, your ceasing to be, or exist as an individual, will inevitably follow once your life has run its course. 

  

Oblivion’s Curse is knowing that one day, there will be no “you”. 

  

Oblivion’s Curse is the knowledge that life’s ultimate sentence for all who shall ever possess it, is death.

 

It is the fear of seeing one’s ego and consciousness destroyed in the mind’s eye.  It is the mourning of our own passing. 

 

It is the poetic and philosophical recognition, summed up in two words, that all life’s motivations are ultimately driven by our eventual death.