Time is such an incongruous thing. Here it is the end of the year and we close a chapter and open a new one full of hope and optimism because of the change of a date. Dates were created by human civilization (is there any other?) but by doing so it seems we pin ourselves into the frame of our own devise. Animals, who live so in the present, are affected by forces much more immediate. They still put food aside for the winter but there is no-it’s Wednesday therefore I must do this. I prefer the animal’s plan although I make up my monthly calendar with obligations and set asides that everything seems to orbit around. Here it is the end of the year and I do delight in seeing the past three hundred and sixty five days fall behind me but don’t they anyway? So it is our own fault that we set up this system. The important thing is to let each day go and be right here and now. Easier said than done.....
When you consider how much emphasis is placed on time and how it runs our lives it really is rather startling and I think, a bane of modern life. At 16, I must do thus and such, at 21, my life will be just so, when, if we just lived, without the preoccupation of time, we would probably be able to accomplish, relax and enjoy ourselves a great deal more.
As I get older and assorted friends along with me we think oh, I am so old I can no longer do that thing. Well, it may be true or it may not. It is not because you are 57, or 62 or whatever. Your body responds to your mind suggestions a great deal. What if we just listened to our bodies instead of that persistent clock. Body says, okay you could do that if you practiced or got off your ass, or whatever the case may be but there is a battle that goes on with your mind that it should not be done, or could not be done, or some such nonsense. Who wins? Generally the one who is more complacent and that is a whole other matter.
So on that note- Happy New Year and good riddance to the last one!
