A ticking clock is a reminder that the cogs are turning and time is moving forward.
Perhaps for some people it’s comforting. The ticking seconds, like tiny jumps though time, carrying you safely to the next moment. Making sure you stay connected to the measured restraints of perceived mathematical progression, so you don’t stray too far from where you‘re supposed to be right now.
But where is that exactly?
The clock ticks.
Age.
Wisdom.
Experience.
Momentum.
Waiting.
What does time mean? To each of us it can’t be the same. Surely we experience time differently and find a different understanding in its perceived existence.
Einstein said it’s relative. Isn’t everything?
What if you don’t like the way you perceive time? What if you want to set it free instead? Set yourself free. Can you see time through the eyes of someone else? Someone who moves through it without the weight of it’s expectant presence?
To unlearn feeling pressured by its driving force stalking you throughout your life.
Can you instead feel time as moments and experiences not limited by a waving finger saying “yes” or “no”, but rather a fluid expression of possibility?
Never racing forward, or losing what’s behind.
Just being in the ever present now.
The future is uncertain, regardless of whether you make plans or not. The past can be quantified, through memories, that coincide with the hands of a clock. Only to anchor their existence in a specific point and place, as if history might float away without being told when exactly it existed.
The cogs turn, the sundial shadow shifts. Yesterday felt longer than today, and tomorrow even shorter again. Daylight savings will compensate for the errors of measuring something that cannot be measured. Let’s just add a day every 4 years and force it to make sense. But are we moving in a circle, or through infinite expression?
Our planet spins and swings through an ever expanding vacuum, even when we stand still. Proof that you cannot live a life sitting in the same place.
Time is not the thing that is moving... you are.
Happy New Year.
Alicia Pavlis is a writer, actor, musician, filmmaker, photographer, visual artist, and content producer. She is passionate about progressive topics and is also an advocate for mental health awareness. All writing, artwork and content expressed on this site are Alicia's own views and opinions. All of Alicia's writing and intellectual property shown on this site is protected by Australian copyright law, reproduction, distribution or publication without Alicia Pavlis' permission is prohibited.
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