Time is so variable:
take this exact moment,
it's gone almost before I've noticed it;
in the blink of an eye,
tomorrow has become yesterday.
Time as a succession of pixels.
The wise tell us to concentrate
on the moment but that's like trying
to keep hold of one drop
in a rapidly moving stream.
Anyway we need time:
sentences are temporal.
Without time, we can neither think, talk,
understand, read nor write.
To communicate we need
words or images in a sequence.
So I have grave doubts
about eternity.
It lacks pixellation,
it lacks communication.
I don't think I am ready for it;
I need more time.
Eternity is indeed a strange concept. From my time-trapped mind, I conclude that eternity desn't imply the absence of time -- that would preclude any events, since an event implies occurence at a particular time. So does eternity mean time going on for ever (with pixellation?)? That sounds a trifle tedious. Could one feel eager anticipation for an event that's not expected to occur for a thousand years?
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