“But
at my back I always hear
Time’s
winged chariot drawing near”
- Andrew
Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
Time will always be the uncontrollable factor
of man’s life; it is one of the only things that can liberate us and imprison
us.
The nature of time is almost like a butterfly
landing in the palm of your hand, if you’ve ever given it a chance to; you
blink and as suddenly as it landed, it takes flight once again leaving you to
wonder if it had ever been there at all.
Andrew Marvell coaxed his mistress with the
thought that time is passing them by and they needed to make the most of their
time together; they needed to make love before their youth became their past.
Life is seducing us to have our love-affair with it; waiting for us to grab the
chance to live like today is all we have.
In life, all you have is the moment. Once the
moment passes by, it becomes a memory only alive to you in your mind. Memories
of the same event exist differently in different peoples’ minds, but the moment
is the same for everyone experiencing it. All you have is that moment before it
passes by, before the butterfly takes flight once again.
But sometimes, that moment is all you really
need.
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