“And just as it only takes a moment to die, it only takes a moment to live. You just close your eyes and let every futile fear slip away. And then, in this new state, free from fear, you ask yourself: who am I? If I could live without doubt what would I do? If I could be kind without the fear of being fucked over? If I could love without fear of being hurt? If I could taste the sweetness of today without thinking of how I will miss that taste of tomorrow? If I could not fear the passing of time and the people it will steal? Yes. What would I do? Who would I care for? What battle would I fight? Which paths would I step down? What joys would I allow myself? What internal mysteries would I solve? How, in short would I live?
So, it took me only 437 years, but I finally realized how to go about answering all this. I didn’t quite know what the answer was but I knew the process. In a way the process was not knowing the answer, and being fine with that. I knew the fear that had been stopping me. So, it was time to live…(content omitted)… We were survivors and, being such, we would survive. The known has gone and the unknown awaits – the story ends and the story begins, over and over, as we dangle eternally in the present. There is nothing more to add, and yet there is always a little more. Life spills over.”*
“There is only the present. Just as every object on earth contains similar and interchanging atoms, so every fragment of time contains aspects of every other.
Yes.
It is clear. In those moments that burst alive the present lasts for ever, and I know there are many more presents to live. I understand. I understand you can be free. I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it. I am no longer drowning in my past, or fearful of my future. How can I be?
The future is you.”*
So, do you fear of getting older and would like to stop time?
When you think about it and worry about it, you are losing your present time and you would never be able to get ready for the future that has already being rushed in, if you are lucky to have.
The past had passed, the future is no where, and what we might have only the present that has just passed now. So at the end of day, what do we have?
The only way to stop time is to treasure every present moment. Then every present moment becomes unique and eternal.
We stop time by not being ruled by it. We do what whatever we like and enjoy whatever we have.
We live. We live only now and here, in the present.
*: “How to stop time,” by Matt Haig
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