Time passes, time flies, time changes things, time changes you. Its important to keep up with time. Very important indeed.
Popular wisdom says that past will never return, future may never come, all that you've been given as a present is present. And living present is, I believe, the way to keep up with time. Not a second in the future, not a second in the past...just here. Just now. Its funny that the 'instant just now' is hardly lived and realized! In a documentary named 'the Human Experience', a group of people travel across different countries, where humans have been forced to survive in the most testing of conditions. They are asked what they cherished the most and the answer is, invariably, 'Life! We cherish Life'. In the bizarreness of metropolitan life, of the existential worries and concerns, of the not-so-realized information overloads and of separation from self, the larger goals and dreams are lost. Lost into oblivion, and as time takes things into its hands - it gulps away all of them. Time jumps ahead of you because you were either lost in the past or dreaming the future. And before time jumps right ahead of you, turns around and has a hearty laugh, you need to grab the present and stop all that illusionary time travelling!
They say time machines cannot be built because the fundamental laws of physics deny it, but biological processes and centuries of evolution - haven't they build the most perfect and stable time machines - the human mind? Synaptic sparks, connections and linkages take you anywhere from the time you first learnt how to ride a bicycle to the day you will graduate, get a job, marry, have children and grow old. You always have this superb time machine at your command to take you anywhere - ideas, dreams and imaginations! But Delmore Schwartz wrote it very beautifully in 1937 - "In Dreams Begins Responsibility" - the responsibility to make them true!
Popular wisdom says that past will never return, future may never come, all that you've been given as a present is present. And living present is, I believe, the way to keep up with time. Not a second in the future, not a second in the past...just here. Just now. Its funny that the 'instant just now' is hardly lived and realized! In a documentary named 'the Human Experience', a group of people travel across different countries, where humans have been forced to survive in the most testing of conditions. They are asked what they cherished the most and the answer is, invariably, 'Life! We cherish Life'. In the bizarreness of metropolitan life, of the existential worries and concerns, of the not-so-realized information overloads and of separation from self, the larger goals and dreams are lost. Lost into oblivion, and as time takes things into its hands - it gulps away all of them. Time jumps ahead of you because you were either lost in the past or dreaming the future. And before time jumps right ahead of you, turns around and has a hearty laugh, you need to grab the present and stop all that illusionary time travelling!
They say time machines cannot be built because the fundamental laws of physics deny it, but biological processes and centuries of evolution - haven't they build the most perfect and stable time machines - the human mind? Synaptic sparks, connections and linkages take you anywhere from the time you first learnt how to ride a bicycle to the day you will graduate, get a job, marry, have children and grow old. You always have this superb time machine at your command to take you anywhere - ideas, dreams and imaginations! But Delmore Schwartz wrote it very beautifully in 1937 - "In Dreams Begins Responsibility" - the responsibility to make them true!
April 28, 2011 3:46 PM
nice!
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