re: "The first thought that occurs is the transitional nature of everything that 'is'."
Well put, Jim. What you are referring to are the simultaneous states of amazement and dismay, or consternation and bewilderment, if you prefer, that I like to refer to as the "first instance effect." It's characterized by a phenomenon that has no identifiable precedent or truly meaningful analogs with which to assist in describing what's actually taking place. Except, of course, the mathematical analogs that are used to define uncertainty and the subject's inevitable reduction to entropy, or dust. Have you used Veronica or Archie lately?
I not only empathize with you but I very often also feel the full brunt of being overwhelmed, just as you or anyone else does, by the amount of new information being generated each nanosecond of every day. If anyone tells you this doesn't apply to to them, then they're either not paying attention or they're full of $#!+.
Save, perhaps, for those areas in which we tend to focus that are our primary zones of resonance, (where we like to delude ourselves into thinking we've actually made maximum headway ;-)
We all possess our own zone of resonance, just as we do band-pass and band-rejection filters. And, between those filters we also possess a sliding scale region that accommodates much of the highly generalized information we attempt to turn into sustainable knowledge each day. If some of that knowledge doesn't stick and happens to fall into the bucket, then it may have to be revisited a number of times. And then there's always that possibility that it really wasn't all that important in the first place ;)
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