{"id":17071,"date":"2024-06-13T10:48:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T02:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaikibu.com\/?p=17071"},"modified":"2025-02-15T21:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T13:33:13","slug":"senescence-what-if-you-were-ageing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaikibu.com\/en\/senescence-what-if-you-were-ageing\/","title":{"rendered":"Senescence, what if you were ageing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An other way to look at transformations and changes, I am sharing here morning thoughts with short poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/kaikibu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240616_senescence-what-if-you-were-ageing_ch.mp3\" autoplay><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background-color:#fef3ea\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Senescence, what if you were ageing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the dawn of my days you have been with me,<br>Power you have given to me, strength you are taking away,<br>Embellished you have made me, withered you are making me.<br>Memory you gave me, memories you are erasing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senescence, what if you were ageing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Powerful you are,<br>Irresistible, I feel you,<br>Vivacious, I sense you.<br>Part of my life you are,<br>From Life, we cannot separate you.<br>Like Her,<br>could it be that you are doomed to finitude?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senescence, what if you were ageing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you grew old,<br>You would weaken,<br>You would forget,<br>You would dry up,<br>You would wither,<br>Your existence would vanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senescence, if you were ageing,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What would become of me?<br>If you touched finitude,<br>And my most faithful companion, I would lose?<br>If your influence abandoned me?<br>Who would I be without the transformations you subject me to every day?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My senescence if you too were perished,<br>Would I then cease to decay?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-theme-palette-6-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9617a9fd62e63dea3ae8d9175665b016\"><em>Original words by Pascal, translated from French<br>Music and voice generated by AI.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-theme-palette-5-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-theme-palette-5-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\"\/>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70)\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u00d4 s\u00e9nescence, et si tu vieillissais ?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Depuis l&#8217;aube de mes jours tu m&#8217;accompagnes,<br>De puissance tu m&#8217;as dot\u00e9, forces tu me retires,<br>Enjoliv\u00e9 tu m&#8217;as, fl\u00e9trir tu me fais.<br>M\u00e9moire tu m&#8217;as donn\u00e9e, souvenirs tu effaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\u00e9nescence, et si tu vieillissais ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Puissante tu es,<br>Irr\u00e9sistible, je te ressens,<br>Vivace, je te sens.<br>De ma vie tu es une part,<br>De la Vie, nous ne pouvons te d\u00e9partir.<br>Comme Elle,<br>se pourrait-il que tu sois vou\u00e9e \u00e0 la finitude ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\u00e9nescence, et si tu vieillissais ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Si tu vieillissais,<br>Tu faiblirais,<br>Tu oublierais,<br>Tu te fl\u00e9trirais,<br>Tu moisirais,<br>Ton existence s&#8217;\u00e9vaporerait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\u00e9nescence, si tu vieillissais,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Que deviendrais-je?<br>Si finitude tu touchais,<br>Et ma plus fid\u00e8le compage, je perdais?<br>Si ton influence m&#8217;abandonnait?<br>Qui serais-je sans les transformations auxquelles tu me soumets chaque jours?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00d4 s\u00e9nescence si toi aussi tu p\u00e9rissais,<br>D\u00e9p\u00e9rir cesserais-je alors?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An other way to look at transformations and changes, I am sharing here morning thoughts with short poem. Senescence, what if you were ageing? Since the dawn of my days you have been with me,Power you have given to me, strength you are taking away,Embellished you have made me, withered you are making me.Memory you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":33040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1420,1418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaikibu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaikibu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaikibu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaikibu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaikibu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kaikibu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaikibu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaikibu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaikibu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaikibu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}