presence

Right now I am in my comfy sweats sitting on an ikea loveseat in my bedroom. But I am also taking the photo to the left...at the Plitvice Lakes in Croatia. At any moment I am everywhere I've ever been and where I am now.

I've been thinking about time lately. I'm not omnipresent like my maker, but I think as humans we aren't as bound to time as we think. In the literal sense yes--I'm not planning on time traveling any time soon*, but I'm learning that memory is truly amazing. There is such a thing as living in the past. No one wants to do that, or to be known that way. I'm thinking of something different, because it's just as dangerous to cut yourself off completely from the past too right? I think there is a way of being present, in the current reality, and also being open to the possibility of anything that happened previously.

I'm not sure if any of that makes sense. Alas, the metaphysical muse has left me.

*A note on time travel. If you ever do have the opportunity, don't take it. Every science fiction movie I've ever seen tells me that nothing positive come from moving unnaturally along the time space continuum. Why is it that people always think they can rearrange the past to impact the future? Did you see the movie Frequency? It's not supposed to be a scary movie, but it freaked me out. Aside from the creepy music, the son talking to his dead father 30 years in the past through the broken radio was terrifying! Makes me anxious just thinking about it...