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the universe's only honest promise: nothing stays, including the part of you reading this
means The quality of lasting only a short time before passing away or changing into something else.
from From Latin transire, 'to go across, pass over,' built from trans- ('across') plus ire ('to go') — the same ire that walks through 'exit' and 'transit.' By the time it surfaced in English (a 17th-century borrowing, via the participle transiens, 'passing'), it had become a word for things caught mid-departure: always going, never quite gone, never staying.
- buddhist core
- Impermanence is one of three marks of all existence
- cell turnover
- Most of your body replaces itself within years
- japanese aesthetic
- Mono no aware celebrates beauty precisely because it ends
- physics
- Even protons may decay over unimaginable timescales
- word origin
- From Latin transire, to go across or pass through
cherry blossom season — japan's sakura blooms last 7-10 days each spring, drawing millions of hanami viewers
mayflies — adult mayflies live 24 hours or less before dying after mating, despite spending years as nymphs
monarch butterfly migration — individual monarchs live 2-6 weeks during their cross-continent journey each fall