It’s said that photographers work with two main elements. Light and Time. I suppose that’s why so many of my writings emphasizes the observation of time. Tonight I’m looking at another version of my favorite old barn and I began to think about how quickly all of our tomorrows become yesterdays. It seems that I was just blogging about how much I was looking forward to Springtime and this morning I saw the leaves falling on my lawn. When I was a kid summer seemed to last a lifetime and today I blink my eyes and it’s almost gone. Sure we’ve had some unseasonably warm weather but the light is fading fast. A few years ago I was in a gym and one of the other men in the locker room made the same observation about how fast the summer went by. His friend answered that when they were only six years old summer was 1/6 of their lives. Now they’re sixty years old and summer was only 1/60 of their lives. The passage of time was relative to the age of the observer.
We live in the moment but moments pass so quickly and we are left with a collection of yesterdays. We can plan what we want tomorrow to become but we only have now to bend time and forge the now into a yesterday worth collecting. Mistakes will be made. It’s inevitable. Many of us are trying so hard to go back and fix the errors that we are losing the now and the opportunity for a new and better yesterday. You see, the old cliche about building a better tomorrow is just that. A cliche. All we can really do is use our now in the best way possible and hope that when we are finished with it that it matures into a better yesterday. A yesterday that is captured by the lens of memory and added to a fine collection which can be shared with those we love.
So true. Time doesn’t so much fly as plummet π
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Thank you Greg.
It’s good to see you feeling better.
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Thanks π Slowly recovering π Need to get my mind in the right space.
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You’re welcome and We’ll be praying for you. π
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Same I wonder, the only difference is your yesterday = my future. I always wonder while looking roads, buildings, trees, flowers, they will sooner fade away. when the time will come they will left as a subject only. lifeless. filled with silence.
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Thank you Enni β€
We must be looking from opposite sides of the mirror. π
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A fine collection, indeed, Lloyd. Beautiful moments in time.
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Thank you Mitch! π I hope you’re having a blessed day.
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Wonderful message. We can only spend an x amount of time fixing our past… we just have to do our best with what we have now, plan and hope for the best.
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Thank you Sophia β€ Yes. Mortal hands cannot reach beyond the present and cannot stop the flow of time. Don't lose the moment that you're in by mourning the moment that passed.
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