Friday, December 18, 2015
Time-lapse in mind thinking
Everyone I have chatted to about this completely agrees, time is speeding up! Either it's because of technology or it's because time has literally sped up and we are so blind to it that we assume 60 seconds is still the same 60 seconds it's always been. But it isn't. There is sorcery involved I'm sure. Even those long last hours of a tedious work day don't exist anymore. Extra snooze minutes don't feel the same. And what was a lifetime has become a blip on the radar. A hurdle takes milliseconds to jump, a hearty laugh is short lived and "just now" or "later" is utter illusion. Either productive or wasted, time doesn't care. It'll move you from now and today to next year and then, with or without your awareness. Time scares the shit out of me. I used to say that my biggest fear is not death itself but rather not being able to see and know the future. The inventions, the advances and the world as we don't know it. However now I can say that my biggest fear is not being able to see and know the world as we are living on it. And time is relevant to it all. Being the basis to my prior fear and the cause to my current. Instead of the future, I want those 60 seconds. I want more seconds now, currently and for everyone. I want real time. I want real love. And I want real life. Not so much that I want to slow time down but instead give myself more credit and acknowledgement in it. To understand its power and its catalytic nature for everything. EVERYTHING. Spend your time wisely, an overheard and in my opinion a really crap way of looking at time. First of all, only time makes you wise. Secondly, spend? And lastly, "your time" is not a finite thing. There is no sell by date known, there is no currency worth trading time for and what's wise today could be foolish tomorrow. "Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed." - Peter Drucker. I call mostly bullshit on this. I'm not a massive fan of the word "manage" and all it entails. By definition it has two meanings and neither sit well with me. Manage - be in charge. In control. Manage - to cope, survive or succeed despite difficult circumstances. Alright, I'm a little too eager for the succeeding part. But that's not how "manage" really makes me feel. How can one control time? Surely pretending to would be a delusional mistake? Coping isn't really appealing either. So how am I supposed to comprehend Mr Peter Decker's statement? Perhaps the very reason I can't is why I fear time. I know I'm definitely not in control and I know that I'm barely coping. Alternatively, "Commit yourself to a deeper awareness. Be generous of spirit. Embrace every day as a new world. Let the timeless be in charge of time." - Deepak Chopra. Now this seems doable. This is without fear and with more ease. And a new world every day? I can forget clinging onto the fear of not knowing the future world, as well as the current because it's new every day. Current is always changing regardless. To further elaborate: "In order to be not bound by the tether of time, we must have a relationship with the timeless." - Deepak Chopra, once again. So I fear time due to my lack of relationship with everything that is not relevant to time. If you take time out of the equation, hurdles are deeper lessons learnt, laughs are limitless and "just now" and "later" either become now and done with heart or never and not important enough to you. I guess it all comes down to feeling that the 60 seconds you are living are exactly as they should be. For reasons that over-thinking time will never tell you. Time shouldn't tell you how to live them, only your heart can and if you focus not on the noisy seconds passing you will feel the beating of your heart and live to those moments rather.
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