Anxiety and the Passing of Time

B. Nathaniel
4 min readJul 26, 2019

Time travelling towards death

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As we pass through time, time passes through us. We age as we fall forward in time. We decay. This is entropy, the second law of thermodynamics.

The existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger has this understanding at its core. That which each one of us is as Dasein / Being-there — that being which asks the question of the meaning of Being — is, most…

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B. Nathaniel

Philosophy Ph.D, phenomenologist, seeker and word merchant.