The passage of time is difficult to illustrate. Can it be summed up in a matter of instances; those few choice moments that left a lasting impression, those that didn’t fade away into obscurity? Or is there more to time than the transitory shifting of one experience to another. Upon recollection does not this slow paced progression become an intangible blurring of experiences, memories, moments, seconds, feelings coming together to result in the present instant. Are not these points in time leading to something; coming together, pieces of each experience, both good and bad collectively forming you as person. Are you not this way because the occurrences in your life have molded you as such? No matter the weight that you have appointed each event, it has certainly furthered to the masterpiece that is you. The sad irony of this, of life and death (which is the medium of time) is that when time finally ceases to have consequence you will have achieved wholeness, but at the same moment you too will cease to exist. The bitter truth is that is our charge to carry this burden throughout our lives, and many, in fact most, spend their lives in a constant battle against time. We must embrace this gift, for it a known certainty that time will someday betray us to death but if we could gracefully hand ourselves over and allow ourselves to be shaped by it, without struggling, when that day finally comes when we breathe our last imagine what we may of become, what we may of learned. For if we are to die, as we will, is there not more honor and wisdom in embracing the time that is given to us and finding the treasure in both the good and the bad and allowing it to further build us up toward the peak of who we can be, to give further insight to our soul that we may someday realize that time is a wise teacher and his is a class that we all must take and someday each of us will graduate, and if we must, why not with full honors?
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That's really cool! I've done similar freewrites on just random topics that I felt the urge to write about. Maybe I'll post mine too.
This was a neat (in brevity) piece of thought. Well iterated questions.
The last sentence seemed to have less point however as it trailed so long in length.
Perhaps that might be broken into a few questions?
For example:
The longer the sentence, at times, the less clear the thought. Though that's not always the case, many things - and most, perhaps - can be said more clearly and keenly in less than more words.
And those that are drawn out tend to be agonised over...a long sentence is often one most often torn apart and revised.
Other than that bit of obscurity...time is always an intriguing subject of question. And as far as questioning and considering, you've gone a long way here. ^_^
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