14 April 1905 (8): "Suppose time is a circle..."In this chapter, most people aren't aware that "they will live their lives over" and that everything they do "will be repeated again and again, exactly as before." But those who are aware of the nature of time are the ones who lead miserable lives. Why?
Time, like love and hate, can never be felt by a human hand, but rather by the human mind. We know by the rising sun of each day that time is happening and we are moving with its path. However we don't know the route time takes. Most people latch themselves on the time-train and ride the one-way ticket until they meet their final destination. Where that is or when the train will stop for their departure is a mystery. But the few others left in the world know or make themselves believe that time is not a one-way ticket through life, rather "time is a circle"(Lightman 7) where the mistakes and precious moments in one's life happen over and over again. These "cursed citizens"(9) do not live in a mystery but a told secret and because they know this time-train will travel through the circle of life they are not capable of fully appreciating the moments they experience because they know that they will experience them again.
The people who enjoy their lives the most are the ones who live in the present and speak of the future. They do not dwell on their mistakes of the past but instead spend every moment of their present lives like that very second in time would never happen again. One should live life with the idea that the time-train is one shot to embrace and absorb every pit stop you take, like the train would never come back to that same place. Living ignorant to the nature of time allows you to avoid over thinking the instant reactions and emotions of your own nature. However, those who know the nature of time are "stricken with the knowledge that they cannot change a single action, single gesture"(9) and are barren of the instinct of their nature because they have been burdened with knowledge they can't forget.
The people who enjoy their lives the most are the ones who live in the present and speak of the future. They do not dwell on their mistakes of the past but instead spend every moment of their present lives like that very second in time would never happen again. One should live life with the idea that the time-train is one shot to embrace and absorb every pit stop you take, like the train would never come back to that same place. Living ignorant to the nature of time allows you to avoid over thinking the instant reactions and emotions of your own nature. However, those who know the nature of time are "stricken with the knowledge that they cannot change a single action, single gesture"(9) and are barren of the instinct of their nature because they have been burdened with knowledge they can't forget.
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wow, this blew me away. it was absolutely amazing. i bet christ thought it was magical!
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