Someone Unplug the Time Machine
I wonder how often we spend time travelling in our heads. How much time do we spend in the past or future? Memory and imagination. Fickle, cruel, hopeful, creative, healing, necessary. All of those somehow get packaged up into the marriage that is memory and imagination. Can we spur imagination without memory? And could we survive memories without hope and imagination? Probably not. But I don’t think that’s what’s important here. I think we need to talk about just how much time we spend in the places that are not the present. How much time do we spend trying to reconcile the past and our hearts, or how much time do we spend trying to bring together our hopes and our futures until they are realities in the present. It’d be refreshing almost, to set aside our memory and imagination for the day just to enjoy the present. Why? Well I can’t change the past and I can’t make the future hurry up or slow down, so maybe the best that we can do is take our time, and spend it here. In the present. Find a little joy huh? For ourselves and the people that we love. That would be alright with me.
