Phew ! it has indeed been a long journey since the last time I was here.
Life is funny, sometimes it seems short, like it was yesterday, and sometimes it seems like ages ago. I think the perspective we take of the time that has gone by or the one that we are looking forward to, depends on how much we were nourished or drained in that period.
The duration for which we are being nourished (willingly or otherwise), seems to pass away like a gush of wind, before you realize it, its gone ! I think that happens because we are busy in that period, we are growing, each moment is experienced by a new us, every milestone achieved unravels a newfound sense of self.
In case of the latter though, time seems to drag , like a drum of tar poured down a hill, just carrying all the debris with it, getting heavier and heavier with each passing moment, gathering lethargy, lazily inching downhill.
So life is indeed short... or long just subject to our experiences and how much they have nourished us. Nevertheless there is just one of it that we can experience with the current body that we possess and what we do with it or subject it to, is our prerogative.
An eventful life, in that logic will always seem short and an uneventful one, always long, what time 'is' and what it 'seems' are two distinct things, for one thing, i realize, that time is not a "real" thing, it is just a record of experiences, i infer that because my limited knowledge of science indicates the possibility of time warps, the ability to bend the dimension of time (in black holes) etc... travel faster than light , and voila! time loses its meaning as we know it. In many esoteric practices too like distance healing, higher level of meditations etc. time and distance too, lose meaning. Hence it suffices to say that "time" per se is not even a real thing, it is simply a frame of reference for our experiences, an 'x' axis if you will, for the 'y' axis of the intensity our experiences, to plot a graph of our life on two dimensions.
That said if time really is so, then I suppose it'd be more productive of life if we focused on experience management than time management. I see that we don't have much control over most of the experiences we are subject to, but we are indeed in charge of what we derive out of them, some lessons, some tears, a few laughs, a few giggles, sporadic screams, bouts of violence, sentences of peace, terms of grief, as diverse as they are, they make life worth living, you never know what is the next experience life is going to be throwing at you and what all you can derive from it !
Experience management, yes that's what i think is the way going forward. Why waste 'time' on trying to manage something that is not even real ? if theosophical explanations are anything to go by, then, experiences and our derivations from them are going to be a part of our DNA, and our future bodies may inherit a great deal from them, we owe it to our future bodies, the least we can do for them is lay a foundation for a decent DNA!
I am hoping that I would be able to delve a little deeper into this epiphany I have had about time and experience.
Though until then i would like to leave with this thought,
the next time when we would truly like to wish someone well.. We bless them with an EVENTFUL LIFE.. not a long one!!!!
Think about it !
Life is funny, sometimes it seems short, like it was yesterday, and sometimes it seems like ages ago. I think the perspective we take of the time that has gone by or the one that we are looking forward to, depends on how much we were nourished or drained in that period.
The duration for which we are being nourished (willingly or otherwise), seems to pass away like a gush of wind, before you realize it, its gone ! I think that happens because we are busy in that period, we are growing, each moment is experienced by a new us, every milestone achieved unravels a newfound sense of self.
In case of the latter though, time seems to drag , like a drum of tar poured down a hill, just carrying all the debris with it, getting heavier and heavier with each passing moment, gathering lethargy, lazily inching downhill.
So life is indeed short... or long just subject to our experiences and how much they have nourished us. Nevertheless there is just one of it that we can experience with the current body that we possess and what we do with it or subject it to, is our prerogative.
An eventful life, in that logic will always seem short and an uneventful one, always long, what time 'is' and what it 'seems' are two distinct things, for one thing, i realize, that time is not a "real" thing, it is just a record of experiences, i infer that because my limited knowledge of science indicates the possibility of time warps, the ability to bend the dimension of time (in black holes) etc... travel faster than light , and voila! time loses its meaning as we know it. In many esoteric practices too like distance healing, higher level of meditations etc. time and distance too, lose meaning. Hence it suffices to say that "time" per se is not even a real thing, it is simply a frame of reference for our experiences, an 'x' axis if you will, for the 'y' axis of the intensity our experiences, to plot a graph of our life on two dimensions.
That said if time really is so, then I suppose it'd be more productive of life if we focused on experience management than time management. I see that we don't have much control over most of the experiences we are subject to, but we are indeed in charge of what we derive out of them, some lessons, some tears, a few laughs, a few giggles, sporadic screams, bouts of violence, sentences of peace, terms of grief, as diverse as they are, they make life worth living, you never know what is the next experience life is going to be throwing at you and what all you can derive from it !
Experience management, yes that's what i think is the way going forward. Why waste 'time' on trying to manage something that is not even real ? if theosophical explanations are anything to go by, then, experiences and our derivations from them are going to be a part of our DNA, and our future bodies may inherit a great deal from them, we owe it to our future bodies, the least we can do for them is lay a foundation for a decent DNA!
I am hoping that I would be able to delve a little deeper into this epiphany I have had about time and experience.
Though until then i would like to leave with this thought,
the next time when we would truly like to wish someone well.. We bless them with an EVENTFUL LIFE.. not a long one!!!!
Think about it !
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