22/02/2017

You,

“The Passing of Time”

How is it that animals, these wild things, go from day to day, not a single worry to hinder them, not a thought for anything longer than an hour before their face? How can they survive it? However it is that they survive you are envious of them. They are free to roam this earth laying down wherever nightfall meets them and picking up again in the morning like nomadic spirits.

You also have this freedom. You reject it. You refuse it. You don’t trust it. But you bound by the same freedoms enjoyed by the flying birds and roaming gazelles. You too can live day by day without even one worry to keep you up into the night. You too can walk in peace thinking only of the immediately important. You too can lay down at nightfall and pickup in the mornings.

Look at you now! None of your worrying makes a difference. Nothing has changed simply by your need to fret over it. Time still keeps to its pace and rhythm. You squeeze years’ worth of worries into 24 hours. You are never at rest. You are never at peace. You are never happy. But if you let tomorrows worries be tomorrows worries, if you could live one day at a time, you would find yourself calm in the midst of a raging world.