If all cells in our body replace themselves every five years or so, can we then conclude that we are new persons, in the same intervals? The trouble is that all cell replacements don’t happen simultaneously.
If I ever get rich and acquire a load of cash (very doubtful perspective!), I don’t believe that would change a lot in my life: I’d probably get rid of it, the same way I was doing it till now.
If I were to apologize to all the people that I’d hurt in the past, even inadvertently, that would consume all the time till the end of my life. Fortunately, I have no intention to do such a thing.
“You’re a big illusion, you golden bird!”, said Meša Selimović, alluding to the temporal nature of life. If we compare life with a bird, of any kind, then I’m becoming, without particular affinity for those creatures, a bit disappointed in life.
