Thought #1- Time
Time. It's something that people feel is unlimited. It's something everyone has experienced and it's something that doesn't make any sense. Think of it, before you know it you will have already read this and be thinking about this concept yourself. Before I know it I will be finished typing this. I don't understand time, it's a moving slideshow of events but sometimes I wish I could just pause it. I try to overlook this because sometimes it makes me upset to think about it but now I'm going to share this feeling with the world......or just my 20 followers xD
Looking back, I think of my whole life - everything lost in the past, things that can never be relived. They say live life to the fullest and I can see why, because time goes on and before you realize it all those good times are memories. Irritrivable. But why ? I have been thinking of this and I can't come to a conclusion. Once time takes it's toll, a flourishing city could become an ancient clump of weathered stone, A plant could begin it's life then slowly deteriorate into a pile of crisp, dried up petals, there are so many more examples I could have used but I think you get the point.
Everything you say is a thing of the past. And now that I think of it - there is no present. Your whole life revolves around past and future. If you could freeze time, freeze aging and such only then you could say you were living in the present. The present my be considered by some as a span of years, say, the range of 10 years is the present if that makes sense. Take a moment, for instance. Say you were sitting by a lake examining the auburn sky as the sun made it's descent below the horizon. You wished that right then and there that time would stand still so you could live in that moment forever. But, sadly, you'll have to get up and face reality at some point.
I don't really know what I expect in time, though. I don't know what I want when it comes to it. I could say I wanted time to stand still but then nothing would ever grow. The grass outside, the children, nothing would grow and would stay the same. Some things in life are dependent on growth, some people live just to see their children grow up to be independent and strong, while others spend their time watching the plants grow, taking time to stop and smell the roses. That's why I don't really know what I would change about time.
Let me give you a reason why I am not a big fan of movies, they are over before you can even grasp the main concept or the lesson in the protagonist's journey. Once they are over, they have become distant memories already. I know some people enjoy movies as an escape from reality for a little while and I appreciate that movies are there for that purpose solely, but I just have the hardest time remembering the movies once they have been viewed. And all of this is because of time.
You could wait in a line for a rollercoaster for hours and hours and looking back on that memory, it seems as if you only waited moments. That's another thing about time that urches me, when you try to remember you can't actually recall any of your feelings or thoughts exactly, and you can't really feel the boredom or the feeling of endless time when you were waiting in that line for the ride. And when you finally get on that ride, what do you remember? The lump in your stomach that yearned for speed, and the wind as it filtered through your hair? Do you even recall the tufts of hair that whipped over your face as you did loops and twists over the colored tracks? Odds are you probably won't remember all your mixed thoughts, emotions, and feelings once that time has passed. I'm not exactly saying you should keep a log of every little thing you do that is now the past, because even though you try to write everything you can remember it's nothing like really riding the roller coaster, or riding the river rapids, or whatever you do. And even if you did want to relive your ride experience and board the ride again, you realize that the feelings and emotion that ride has to offer is temporary, everything is temporary.
I'm not trying to sound depressing or bring people down, I'm only trying to express a point that time is unexplainable and uncontrollable. But even though time is confusing and all there are some good things about time. Experience. When you read a nonfiction novel about someone' s life you are reading about their experiences. They may not remember every thought that crossed their mind in their tale so they add in what they thought they were thinking but it doesn't at all mess with how entertaining the story is. If anything it adds to the suspicion, or humor, or whatever genre they choose.
Time is something that not only confuses people and makes people think, it's also something that brings happiness and joy with every passing moment lived, It's not only something that requires an unexplainable explanation, but something that causes progression and evolution. I don't know what brought me to write about this, but I was just thinking about it and decided to share my thoughts. Now you've gotten to the end of my opinionated thoughts. And as I said at the beginning of this, "Before you know it you will have already read this and will be thinking about the concept yourself" Well, are you ? (:
