Life is not static

"Our [human] nature lies in movement; complete calm is death ... Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversions, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his abandonment, his insufficiency, his dependence, his impotence, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, grief, anger, despair."

~ Blaise Pascal, from his Pensees [Section I, 29-131]