Eternity

Can a bicycle die?

I mean, die the way living beings do, as if it were in fact a living being,

a being which has its own destiny, its own fate, a being which has within itself the principle of death…

This, certainly, never comes to our minds.

As an inanimate being, as an object, a bicycle would not be granted this condition, this status.

But there are moments when I am in doubt, moments when I see, in the presence of a bicycle exposed to weathering and facing extinction, strong evidence of life, of existence.
Not this earthly, biological, uncertain life of ours, but a life that outstands

above our weaknesses and our insignificance, like an eternal relationship between forces and lines in nature and in an ideal world.

A bicycle can die, but it dies with an unparalleled dignity which raises it into eternity.

Photo: Anne Seltmann ( Germany)

Translation from Portuguese : Renata Kabke Pinheiro