2013 – A VIEW

And, I ask, can we with our stumbling, fumbling senses, who have infected this glorious shining, sapphire sphere, although at times it seems we are Pavlovian rats running inside a four-dimensional maze, can we ever get to an answer to the fundamental question:

WHY?

Time past merges into time present – both making time future. If all time is eternally present, then time is not a linear concept but a circularity…. just as yesterday is today, tomorrow, so last year is this year, next year and so ad infinitum. Our ‘what might have beens’ are abstractions, remaining mere speculation, going nowhere.  Time past and time future, what might have been and what has been point to one end – always the present.

I can only say I have been there but I cannot say where; nor can I say how long as that is to place it in time. For me, there is an inner place known by no-one except me which cannot be explained to others for they are not me.

Time past and time future allow a degree of consciousness but consciousness is not to be in time. Remembrance, the personal involvement in past and future – that is the only way that time is overcome.

Perhaps now is a place of disaffection with time before and time future; it is neither daylight that turns shadows into beauty, nor darkness that often cleans the more temporal soul.

This year will be similar to last and the next; each of us will be caught up in our own soliloquy whirled around by the cold winds of unwelcome change. We have to live through it, beat it, meld it to our inner selves and give thanks we CAN.

We may be no nearer answering the basic question of WHY? But at least our intellect is working in time past, time present – to make time future.

I wish everyone all that they themselves wish for themselves and for those around them….

Peripatetic Scribe