The power of time

It’s amazing the things you find when you just clean up. So I was cleaning up and found a very old album of mine. I paused the cleaning and just kept flipping through the pictures...bad hair, not too tasteful dressing, bad poses, very bad poses...in one of the pictures I looked like I was about to fly and I just kept telling myself that if I stare longer at the picture, I’m sure my wings would pop out from somewhere. But amidst all the ridiculousness, it brought back memories, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

It just got me thinking how things easily fade into memories. The feelings we once held dear, the people we could die for, the places that meant so much to us. Then what changed? What happened to those feelings? Nothing really changed, time just happened. I remember laughing so hard at one picture and saying "how time flies though"

When they say "time heals all wounds" or "this too shall pass" we usually don’t appreciate these words at the moment when it’s spoken, but the truth is, time is indeed powerful. I for one, was happy while looking at my old pictures, that time took its toll on me.

To think I was wondering why I didn’t get asked out so often. Hey guys, I blame you no more. I wouldn’t have asked myself out, especially not on the days I decided to wear those red pants that made me look like a hired clown for a kid’s 1st birthday party.

From today, whenever you look at the clock, remember, Time is not just for the hours to pass, or for us to get older, it gives us a new chance every second. With each new second, the former is washed away. We as humans can choose to dwell on the times past and regret things we did or didn’t do or we could choose to take the new chance time presents before us and embrace a brighter future.

So anytime you are down or feeling very sad, you can adopt my therapy. Look at your old pictures and laugh at yourself, ponder on things that happened in times past and how it now feels like nothing ever happened, think about the day you broke up with that person you thought was the love of your life but now you can’t even place his/her face, just think about your past and imagine how you can have a better future. When you are done thinking, slowly beat your chest and say "This too shall pass!"