How to Stop Time
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‘What’s strange?’
‘How much time you spend worrying about the future.’
‘Why? It always happens. That’s the thing with the future.’
‘Yes, it always happens. But it’s not always terrible. Look. Look right now. At us. Here. This is the future.’
who am I? If I could live without doubt what would I do? If I could be kind without the fear of being fucked over? If I could love without fear of being hurt? If I could taste the sweetness of today without thinking of how I will miss that taste tomorrow?
That’s the thing with time, isn’t it? It’s not all the same. Some days – some years – some decades – are empty. There is nothing to them. It’s just flat water. And then you come across a year, or even a day, or an afternoon. And it is everything. It is the whole thing.’
– ‘Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in the memory as the wish to forget it’
It may seem strange, falling in love with someone because of a gesture, but sometimes you can read an entire person in a single moment. The way you can study a grain of sand and understand the universe. Love at first sight might or might not be a thing, but love in a single moment is.
the sadness of the memories weighed more and lasted longer than the moments of happiness themselves.
And a life is like that. There’s no need to fear change, or necessarily welcome it, not when you don’t have anything to lose. Change is just what life is. It is the only constant I know.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
It wasn’t just the loss of people I had known but also the loss of myself. The loss of who I had been when I had been with them.
Forever, Emily Dickinson said, is composed of nows. But how do you inhabit the now you are in? How do you stop the ghosts of all the other nows from getting in? How, in short, do you live?