On tears and rain

I was perusing favorite quotes today and came across a great one:

"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh." ~ Samuel Beckett

That's interesting to ponder - is there ever a moment in time when no one in the world is crying? Or are tears, as Beckett said, a constant? There never would be a way to check, so I just consign my own tears to the sigh of humanity. Yes, briefly, I broke a resolution.

Again, tagging my last post, I am coming to realize that we really are part of something outside of ourselves. And no one's pain is localized.

It's raining here again, still, making melancholia seem the norm. Even the dogs are grumpy and tired. It would be easy to lay in bed this morning, crying.

Instead, too many things to do. I think of another favorite line, from the movie Blade Runner. The head renegade replicant, Batty, is dying. He relates a list of memories to the human hunting him, then quips:

" . . . All these moments will be lost, like tears in rain . . ."

It's such a powerful scene. And a powerful thought.

I will lose my tears in the rain today. Moving on needs constant reminding.

Here comes the flood.