things to think about
I've been having these thoughts about life and our awareness of ourselves and time. I've been thinking about the fact we never "feel" different as we age. I don't mean physically, I mean emotionally and mentally, we always feel like we do at the moment. Perhaps my putting it into words doesn't comunicate it aptly, but i will continue nonetheless.
As I age I never "feel" like I am aging. I can never tell or feel like I am maturing, yet others around me say that am or have. I have also told friends that they have matured, healed, grown, etc. and they have responded with either surprise or with embarassed encouragment. Which has led me to wonder about our sense of time, aging, growth, etc. .
Are we meant to sense our own growth? Are supposed feel our own maturing? It seems like if we were meant to sense these things God would allow us to. Plus, because time passes and our sense of feeling never changes, yet our body ages and we do actually change and mature, it has become more and more clear to me that our spirits, who we are, is truely eternal and not affected by time. It seems as though sin, which brought about death and decay, really is the cause of us growing old physically.
Time is such a weird thing. It is all relative to how fast you are going, it is measured by an arbitrary measurement set up by man, yet you can't "feel" it, taste it, see it. You can only see it's effects on things, yet we can only exist in just a sliver of it; the thing we call the present, and cannot move around in it. And we are ONLY ever in the present, as soon as we say "now", "now" is gone, so are we ever REALLY in the present? If we are only ever in the present, the "now", does that mean we are in eternity at this time?
As I age I never "feel" like I am aging. I can never tell or feel like I am maturing, yet others around me say that am or have. I have also told friends that they have matured, healed, grown, etc. and they have responded with either surprise or with embarassed encouragment. Which has led me to wonder about our sense of time, aging, growth, etc. .
Are we meant to sense our own growth? Are supposed feel our own maturing? It seems like if we were meant to sense these things God would allow us to. Plus, because time passes and our sense of feeling never changes, yet our body ages and we do actually change and mature, it has become more and more clear to me that our spirits, who we are, is truely eternal and not affected by time. It seems as though sin, which brought about death and decay, really is the cause of us growing old physically.
Time is such a weird thing. It is all relative to how fast you are going, it is measured by an arbitrary measurement set up by man, yet you can't "feel" it, taste it, see it. You can only see it's effects on things, yet we can only exist in just a sliver of it; the thing we call the present, and cannot move around in it. And we are ONLY ever in the present, as soon as we say "now", "now" is gone, so are we ever REALLY in the present? If we are only ever in the present, the "now", does that mean we are in eternity at this time?
posted by Jason at 7:17 PM
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