I’ve been thinking about this conversation, shown above, from the game Fire Emblem: Three Houses. The game was made in 2019, just before the Pandemic, and other nonsense that went on in 2020 onward. How prophetic that statement was. Then again, I suppose this is something every generation has to live through in some ways. Sooner or later, things change, we lose something in the process and never get it back.

It reminds me of a quote from the Analects of Confucius:

[9:17] The Master [Confucius], standing by a river, said, “It goes on like this, never ceasing day or night!”

Translation by A. Charles Muller

or Gandalf in the Fellowship of the Ring:

“Well, what can I tell you? Life in the wide world goes on much as it has these past age, full of its own comings and goings…”

J.R.R. Tolkien

Seen from another way though, this also means that new things come as well. Sometimes this can be scary, sometimes this can be a positive thing.

I suppose it’s all a matter of perspective.