Sep 1, 2021
Time-Traitor
The Harbinger of Timeless Time
We all inhabit our own dimensions of time. At this very moment, for all of us in existence, there is a different time. Hours of the clock and days of the calendar only keep track of the repetitive and the cyclical, but within this fabricated structure, the flow of time does not follow any universal scheme. The same physical duration of twenty-four hours could easily last an eternity for an individual and for the other, a whole year can slip by in moments. You could go through the entire history of the universe in the tiniest detail with not even ten seconds lapsing and concentrate on a single smile and hours would run by.
While we grapple with the idiosyncratic ebbs of the time, at some point in our life we come across someone who becomes our Time Traitor. Beyond the usual aberrations, with this Time Traitor, your time disintegrates into an entity beyond the dimensions and the natural laws. Waves pause amidst their crescendo, raindrops halt their journey to the land, and in that space, away from life and death that exists betwixt the heartbeats, you spend nine lives.
Yes, when we are waiting for something, the time gets stagnant and when we are occupied with that something; it takes rapid strides. Two people in the same space might simultaneously experience time completely differently. That is usual. But then it is also mundane.
When you are around your Time-Traitor, time hastens and in their absence, it stalls, but the key difference is that this is a mere appearance of time, for, with them, time’s existence ceases. There comes in an element that feels like time but, unlike time, it is unending. This goes on in loops and trails, and thrills and torments. Time collapses and suspends, whether it is that moment with them or without them. And this flow of timeless vacuum encapsulates both the people. You share this timeless time in a twenty-minute nap with them which feels like a sweet sleep worth a century, or when you engage in a conversation that never runs out of words and thoughts, or in a mere touch that sends tremors to the soul freed from the shackles of time.
In the end, you just want more of these moments where you can share this timeless time with your Time-Traitor, and feel the soulful silence that was before the universe existed.
