Time and us
We are always concerned with time. Well, I’m not talking about the weather that makes us smile on a sunny day and let us down on a cloudy one, nor about spring, summer, autumn or winter, the seasons of the year. No, I’m not referring to these. I’m talking about the timeline of our memories – the moments we have experienced, and those yet to come.
Each of us has a past, a personal history, some events we may openly share and others we keep hidden, as revealing them may bring us pain or irritate someone else. At times, we relive those memories, reshaping them like a time machine to turn those uncomfortable memories into something sweeter.
The past is full of lessons, but many times we learn nothing because we choose to ignore bad past events and continue our lives, yet they continue to exist. The past is not only the origin of the source of our agonies but also where we drink the sweet liquid of our successes.
Whether we are proud of our past or not, it can make us smile or scare us. We proudly share our achievements with the world, while we bury our fears keeping them hidden from others.
The past reflects in the present, either as a reminder of our mistakes or as proof of our prosperity, like a mirror of time. The present is an adventure, a daily journey where we can imagine utopia and think big, or become ordinary people who try to achieve impossible and trivial dreams. Utopia represents desires and willpower, while greed is where losers crawl. So, we must build our present on our life experiences, whether our past is made of pride or disappointments.
We try to foresee our future when we ask advice from oracles or soothsayers – crystal balls that don’t light up the darkness. We deceive ourselves and create fiction about our future to improve our lives. The future is a distant world and does not yet exist. If it did, we wouldn’t spend our time imagining it – we would simply wait for it instead of investing in our present.
The past is like a romanticised text that we manipulate as we please – erasing bad moments and rebuilding them to make ourselves feel better.
Like a soap opera, the past can be a story full of regrets that cannot be undone. We are builders of walls to cover our sins and regrets. If we could rebuild our past, even in our imagination, the present would be an opportunity to review our life paths and reclaim our abandoned ideas. As time passes, our chances of success diminish, and we tend to stop fighting, allowing our souls to abandon the struggle.
As I said, the future belongs to no one because it does not yet exist. We are temporary beings in life, sustained by our past. The present is always an opportunity to fight and achieve our goals. Its consequences—whether good or bad—will affect the past, to be reinterpreted in the future.
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