THE DUALITY OF TIME

 

There are intervals in life… like celebrating dinner with our niece 

that are wonderfully sublime…

Times when I am overwhelmed by the duality of time

For instance wasn’t it just the other day…into this world our niece arrived?

If that’s the case…

how can this beautiful and talented young woman across form us…now be 25? 

And how time which is always moving forward…and always moving fast

will sometimes slow down for us on our trip to the future from the past.

Which leads to another time perception I have never truly comprehended…

how during dinner with our niece…did time slow down…it’s as if it was suspended?

Except for a musician in the corner of the restaurant…whose music filled the air… 

Deborah, Natalie, and I were the only people there.

We visited for a couple hours…talking about life and love and family

but it wasn’t until we prepared to leave I was struck by times duality.

It’s as if in our two hours together…times was nullified…

I hadn’t heard one song from the musician…

and now…the restaurant was fully occupied!

I wonder if time understands how we live in moments…

and being that she is compassionate…as well as wiser and much stronger…

she allows some of these moment in our life…to last a little longer…

Moments like with our niece Natalie (with family and friends)

knowing…since she is time…she’ll catch up in the end.

I’m okay with time moving forward…never visiting the same moment again

as long as in some moments she takes a moment…every now and then

and allows herself and the rest of the world to fade into the background…to recede….

and…like she did in a restaurant with our niece…

she slows down…to give us all the time we need.