The Falling

The existentialist-Heideggerian concept of “thrownness” is that we come into this world, that we enter life, only by way of having been “thrown” or “pushed” into it. But if our entry into life is like that, then life itself is a process of continued, perpetual falling, a falling towards the exit … a falling that ends only at life’s end. Our passage through the vast expanse that envelops us is directed by an external compelling force. Once we’re thrown, we cannot help but fall … and we keep on falling until we can fall no further … until we fall back into the void, having only just a brief instant before been thrown out of it.