Status Updates From Exhalation

“Todos mis deseos y reflexiones no son ni más ni menos que remolinos generados por la exhalación paulatina de nuestro universo. Y hasta el momento en que esta gran exhalación termine, mis pensamientos proseguirán.”

Take-away from the story "Exhalation":
Finitude is not a problem to be solved. It is the condition under which meaning exists.

Note:
Despair comes from demanding eternity.
Chiang offers you clarity instead.

Note from the story Exhalation:
To think is to burn the universe; to remember is to delay the inevitable; to exist is to be a temporary defiance of equilibrium.