Jam 5: What does your watch say?

You’re elated. You accomplished a life goal — graduated, finished writing a book, found love, cycled across the hill or cracked your first sales deal.

tick-tock-tick-tock! And there goes that moment. Gone.

Hues of melancholy. You’re at a fork, you goofed up, you don’t know where it’s all heading and you feel insignificant.

tick-tock-tick-tock! And there goes that moment. Gone.

You’re in pain. You lost a loved one, lost a limb, lost a company that you spent your entire life building or failed at the only chance that you had to win the world cup for your country.

tick-tock-tick-tock! And there goes that moment. Gone.

That’s the beauty of time. The highest of maximas and the lowest of minimas are all the same in front of the ticking clock. Here for the moment and then gone.

If the moment is momentary, then why is the baggage of the moment permanent/quasi-permanent on our minds?

The next time you check your watch, remember, you have two ways to look at it. Checking time and placing yourself relative to the perceived scheme of things OR listening to the seconds-needle click and finding solace in the fact that this too shall pass.

Whatever happened to the dreamers
They always look beyond the sky
Saw a world they could believe in
But only when they close their eyes