The weekend 101 prompt is around "time" this week. I spent some time considering each prompt.
What age would I like to be? Would I want to roll back time? Or roll it forwards?
I concluded that there were too many good memories that I want to savour. Okay, I have made many mistakes in life too. Some moments I haven't been proud of. However, they were distinguished learning points.
I have alongside my mistakes, had a lot of great experiences. I can look back on them fondly. More than that, the relationships I have now, the skills in life I have now, and the opportunities i have now; they have all come about through those experiences I have lived.
I am generally happy where I am. I guess that is something to be celebrate in life itself. I live for the moment and generally, despite some crap that life throws at us, I generally enjoy life. So why change and teleport myself to another moment in time?
Yes, if I could roll back the clock, perhaps I could avoid making some of the mistakes I made. However, I am sure I would have just made other mistakes just a catastrophic. I wouldn't have learnt so much in life either. We learn from our mistakes.
So, just stay living in this time where I am now?
Well, yes!
However, things aren't going to remain the same. My parents are getting really quite old and realistically, I know they only have so many years left. I have a better relationship with them now then I have ever had - mainly because I have learnt and developed. I am not looking forward to the moment I will lose them.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus
I am also getting older - and who knows what is around the corner for me.
So, I suppose rather than roll back the clock. It would be great if I could slow down time. I seem to be burning through time so quickly - probably because I live life to the full. Wouldn't it be great though to slow it down and have more time to enjoy the moment?
Would you like to also slow time down so you could live more time right now?