Time and space

I was listening to this short video about Time and Space and realised how futile and vacuous, if you excuse the pun, trying to understand what it in an Aristotelean-Baconian manner means (breaking it down and trying to tame it.)

WE ARE FISH AT WAR

As someone who has tried very hard and attempted to read about/around it, I have decided that because we are beings which live in time and space, we cannot see nor understand it - like a fish trying to understand water. Time and space is our water. Yes ok you can measure it and parse it out, but really at the end of it all, it is basically a fruitless exercise. We can control it to a certain extent, but after awhile we will hit a wall, called the limits of our human abilities, enter neurosis and this is when a war is started - when we try an assert dominance over time and space. ANY WAR.

The casus belli is never he hit me miss, but, I want to have sovereignty over time and space. This is mine. Through this lens all wars are moronic - which they are. Instead of trying to spend our time sharing out time and space with each other in the most loving and fruitful way possible, we hit each other and ourselves over the heads in order to do something which can never be done.

'I LAUGH AT YOUR PLANS' - THE UNIVERSE

Each human being, at the end of it all, is a vessel for spirit / consciousness to experience this incredible phenomenon, on this incredible planet. I mean, what else does anyone want? Yet, at the same time, we end up from day one, having PLANS. Plans. Imagine this - the ENTIRE UNIVERSE vs PLANS - specifically your plans - YOUR plans. How much more deluded can anyone get?

We come to Earth, for this limited time, and all we can do is what? scheme and plot and fester and gripe and moan and groan and complain. OMG the COMPLAINING - I CANNOT BEAR IT. When people complain beyond venting I wonder, if you are SO UNHAPPY - DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Don't complain if you are going to stay there... it is a waste of EVERYONE'S TIME. Literally. Do something about it. If you are too scared to do something, and there is no harm in it, then enjoy the ride. You might as well. If you do something about it and it fails, yes, it can fail, then know that you tried to do something about it and that was a noble thing. Just have your gripe and then stop it.

THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS

When you see this, when you understand this, you can walk away, freed. You can say, alright - this is what I have and this is what I can do with it. And it is always, I promise you, better to do something worthwhile with it, than something selfish and mean and hedious, which currently, it would seem, is the preferred option of what we now term the 'elite'. I see nothing elite about the 'elite'. I see people which think they have conquered time and space (been so-called successful), but what they have done is paint themselves into a corner. A corner from which there is only one way out - and that way is through the door from which they came - which for them is NOT an option. Unless they decide to make the ultimate door for themselves - which is death, or free themselves from the mind-forged manacles - the Truman Show door at the end of the film - they are now in a prison of their own making AND then they wonder to themselves - why in the wide world am I so unhappy - STILL? You are so unhappy because you have waged war with Time and Space and guess what, spoiler alert Time and Space WON. They fucking won baby, cos - again - guess what? The House Always Wins. Always. And the house we are playing in is owned by fucking Time and Space. Cos there is ALWAYS A TOMORROW. Unless there isn't.

So wherever you are and whatever you are doing just live your best life.

LIFE IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN...

Stop making plans and just be a child once again. I am not suggesting you boot things in, abandon your responsbilities, and feck off a cliff. I am saying that make those plans, but know that they are adventures, little points along the way. Like... say thinking about a holiday - a trip abroad, instead of thinking this is gonna make or break me. Stake your entire existence and identity on this PLAN. Do you think to yourself when you go on a holiday, I am going to go to Newry or Ang Mo Kio and when I got to Newry or Ang Mo Kio I will have proved myself to everyone? No, no you don't cos that would be demented - mean maybe for some people... But that is what a plan is ultimately, a journey into the unknown, for the curious. You never know what tomorrow brings - so just be curious. Imma gonna do tomorrow and imma gonna see what it brings.

A CRAFTER OF TIME AN SPACE

We swim in that medium, we can become masters of the medium, not by owning it, but by being artists of it. As soon as we are born, we are given the opportunity to become top level, each one of us, mater craftspeople of Space and Time. We are born masters of it - children have the best time playing and making the most of that time. Watch a child and enter that space again - but this time with the wisdom and discernment with the consciousness of an adult.

And the tool with which we have been given to sculpt time with? It is choice. We have been given the freedom to choose what we do with the space and time we have been given. If you want to spend all Sunday morning cutting the grass, good do that. If you want to spend it drinking coffee and reading the papers, yes do that. Having meaningful sex. Great. Having a terrible hangover - yes, go for it. If you choose to be playing the piano badly, or going for a run. It is a choice we can make, in the balance.

An the ultimate luxury is the ability to be truly free to choose - this is why people try to have money to open up their choices - but really, those choices are illusions if in order to have those choices means that you are imprisoned in some other way. And no one with has made that level of 'elite' money will tell me that they have not traded something, usually a piece of their soul, in order to get it.

So be a master of time and space - it is our birthright. It is what we were meant to do. Leave it better than when we found it. And then, as they say, the wave returns to the ocean, having done what it was meant to