Recently I've been getting these strange feelings. I'm walking home, the wind will blow, and I'll suddenly remember ten years ago and
feeling the same wind. Sometimes even further back than ten years. Anything can trigger it, a smell, a word someone said, a particular motion.. I wouldn't call it nostalgia, because sometimes its not always a positive feeling. It's more like a star trek episode and I feel my entire life is on this weird loop of cycles, cycle after cycle after cycle. My age and the circumstances seem different, but the cycle and its movements are the same.
It's not just the past I feel.
The other day I had a few moments all to myself. The house was so quiet, and even though I live next to a highway, there wasn't any traffic either. Just this stillness. I thought the stillness would be peaceful. But instead when I tried to pay attention to the stillness, I get uneasy - because it wasn't still. It was moving and whirling so fast! I can't really explain what I felt, but I felt this invisible energy rushing forward -
forward in time.
Anxious I jumped up and looked for something to do! I mean, how could I sit still when time wasn't?
I didn't understand why I was getting all of these weird feelings, I mean, feeling time isn't the same as remembering. Thoughts are more mental, this was feeling.
But I sat there and did my best to make sense of it. Scientists tell us time isn't linear, actually it's a part of this weird thing called the space-time continuum, not that I really understand what's that all about. Except that some scientists say, that this space-time has a geometric shape! Time has some sort of geometry to it?
I then imagined that when I was feeling the past, that maybe my sensation of cycles isn't just a crazy idea. But maybe there is a spiral like structure to time, and in every point of time, I can feel the previous parallel point in time of a previous turn on that spiral of time. What was the rush of energy I felt moving forward? Could that be the part of time ascending to the next turn on the spiral?
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