Is nothing permanent?

While sitting atop of the park gate at 5 in the morning with the agony of a fractured thumb,
a friend approached me and consoled "Nothing is permanent neither this fracture nor the pain"
I knew what he meant & smiled back.

On brooding over his comments, I realized that they weren't just words of solace; in fact
they implied the very first law of nature. The law of change.

Yes, change is a law and we have no exceptions to it. Arthropods, animals, humans, day, night, time, nature, feelings, love, memories, faith, believes.......... sooner or later any and everything changes.
Nothing stays for ever, Dynamism is the word.

Its so true that nothing in this world is permanent. We confirm it on all levels:
Universally, stars forge and collapse.
Globally, continents shift and climates change.
Personally, each of us is constantly evolving & will continue to (be it mentally, physically, spiritually or in any other sphere) as we confront with the challenges of life. You will not think in the same ways as you used to think 10 years ago or will think after 10 years. This is because after 10 years u would have changed a lot depending on the situations you faced, people you encountered & so on. With flying time we observe our physical variation, mind shifts, changing relationships & our previous possessions wearing out & new coming in.

That is to say we live in a world of constant flux & when we refuse or ignore this knowledge it results in suffering as when we fail to acknowledge impermanence, we adhere to things such as our youth, to our health, our relationships, and our possessions. We cling to them as though they could provide lasting happiness, as though they will last forever. Eventually, reality intervenes. That to which we cling is taken from us, and we forced to face the truth of impermanence. Thus we have the pain of a stolen car, of an ended relationship, or the death of a loved one.

Even the word permanent here is itself used temporarily for the time which is so called exists.

Could you possibly cite an example for anything permanent?
Maybe change? Oft said change is the only constant.

Well guys as I also regard change as the only constant & mind you things never change, we change. But lately I started to feel that the world is far more dynamic & complicated for sometimes even change is not permanent.
Sometimes I feel stagnation is the way the world goes & somethings will be the same for ever like only females can give birth not men :p (I guess you are wise enough not to indulge the latest scientific developments.)
Well this will not change as it is relative. I guess we won't get up one fine morning to find that we have changed to a hippo :D , yet each morning we do change.


Even death is not permanent we will get a life afterwards. Behind every sucess their lies a faliure and behind every faliure there is a sucess so you see nothing stays the same forever.
Time make changes even time is not permanent it will come to an end. Even end has an end.

Who said "nothing is permanent"? My goodness there are still artifacts around from Roman times and before!
'Stuff' can certainly be permanent. But that's not what is valuable in life...we all know that.
Values, situations, relationships, status, ecology, cultures, language, mood, state of mind...and a myriad of other things change and flex, disappear and grow......stagnation is NOT a good thing. Change is often for the better. True progress is fluid.


Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.

CHANGE IS INEVITABLE...
GROWTH IS INTENTIONAL!!

so learn to adapt with the changes that comes in our lives... live with it, be part of it and enjoy it!!! afterall, it is this changing world that makes us all who we are now...
Trust urself, u hav a lot of power within u, power to feel new things, like them and live them!!

If we go by the theory that nothing is permanent, then how can end hav an end??? End can only hav a new start right?

Its true that nothing is permanent, 'cos permanent is boring, its predictable...only thing it makes u feel is secure!!



We simply are not made to be stagnant. To be permanent. We can't be.
I would say nothing is permanent..,except change.

even the so-called "true love".

If you are speaking of love in the sense that people like Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi or Mother Theresa spoke of then may be you are rite.., such love may be permanent.., I still don't know coz it's something which pertains to an entirely different level.

but everything else.., it's just that it hasn't faced a stern enough test to break it.., love survives on expectation and when expectations are not met it is bound to fail.., but for a person who accepts change expectations could be minimal.., well I guess he may not love too then..,

love is a relationship and relationship changes with the time i might end also but only thing which is always there is relation its permanent think about it
Change is also not permanent ,
every thing ends with the end of times
after that every thing remains unchanged.

Everything changes. Love never dies. But it changes. It transforms for newer things.