Time flies past, doesn’t it?
The hair that you struggled to control and style
now you have to find a hundred ways to stop it from falling
Food takes longer to go through you, most times it just becomes part of you
and refuses to leave, never mind all that exercise that you pretend to do
Time flies past, doesn’t it?
Beyond the clichés and the stated obvious
Time really does move faster than your attention towards it
Children grow up before you can spend enough time with them
Friends grow apart before you had a chance to get bored of them
Time flies past, doesn’t it?
You stand closer to your end than the beginning
and yet most of it you spend in yesterday, reminising
and lamenting about lost dreams and fruitless pursuits
Time flies past, doesn’t it?
The more you want to pause it, slow it down a little
the faster it goes, a futile exercise
and it all adds up, and compounds the loss
Yes, time does fly past, and fast
the sooner we accept it, the slower we see it go past
possibly even savor the moments that make up our hours and days
possibly even let go of yesterday and embrace the unknown of tomorrow
but more importantly, possibly even see the gift of the present
and live
in every moment
that life offers us
for then, time doesn’t fly, nor run, nor walk
but just stays still, watching you do your thing
for now time isn’t a factor of concern
what you have in front of you, with you, in you – IS.
The beauty of karma yoga, and the joy of doing
eclipses everything else, even time.