Time

In 6 days, October 2007 will be no more. Isn't that amazing? Tomorrow becomes today and then becomes yesterday. Not unless something special happened on that day, it will then be forgotten, lost in the past. Paul Bowles said:

... we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

I sometimes wonder where time goes. Where does it wait for tomorrow? What does it do when today comes? Where does it retire to when it becomes yesterday? I wonder if time never gets tired of this endless cycle. I wonder if it also feels the slowness of days and the speed of the years gone by. I wonder if it revels at the changes in the world since it began eons ago. I wonder if it looks forward to the distant future when the destruction of the earth is inevitable. Time is like a long-lost friend. Sometimes you think about him and other times you don't realize that he's just there beside you.

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For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8