Subject #20: On time

The time is NOW.

I was planning to write nothing else than that about the subject of time as I have already covered it more or less before. However, let’s go through less serious questions this time.

If there was a time machine, where would you like to go in the future?

I have never been too interested about the future and it’s more difficult question to answer because future is unknown. Anyway, perhaps I would take a peek of humanity in year 3000.

And in the past?

Well, there would be lots of interesting places to visit. Here are some of them in random order:

· meeting spiritual persons like Buddha, Jesus, Socrates, Bodhidharma, Dogen and J. Krishnamurti. It’s difficult to say who would I like to meet most – I could communicate verbally only with last one.

· sharing few bottles of wine with Cyrano de Bergerac while talking about literature

· same kind of evening with Alexandre Dumas

· exploring time of king Artuhur

· seeing techniques of Miyamoto Musashi & Morihei Ueshiba

· checking out how dinosauruses looked for real

· playing few games of chess with Paul Morphy

And in your own past?

That’s a tricky question, which I have thought about sometimes. The thing is that if I went to the past to face some moment there, it would be experienced very differently as I’m not the same person as I was back then. Also I would have to be careful not to change anything in the past as everything that has happened has been perfect pieces in huge mosaic. Anyway I could go, for example, to spend again a fun poker night in Israel but it would surely feel weird.

If you could choose any time in history or in future to live in, which one would you choose?

I think most people would not want to leave the present time because of the friends & family. I would probably choose not to leave either but if I had to choose then it would be a difficult choice but let’s pick an old idea of living at the 17th century.

Where do you see yourself in 20 years?

I never really think about that. In the past I had impression that I probably die young. Perhaps it was just that it was difficult to imagine myself as an old or perhaps I was never too attached with life itself. Anyway, in 20 years I am either dead or enjoying life :) I do not try to give any concrete description of that life as it’s just attempt to list dreams which I don’t actually have nowadays.

What would you say if you could send message to yourself 10 years back?

Another one of my favourite thoughts. Problem here is the same as going past in one’s life – I would not like to change anything that has happened. But if we view this question that way that I would be talking to another dimension of reality and that ”me” would continue his life in another dimension – well then it would be a huge discussion and it might turn out to be worthless because the past me would not accept some things that I would say before he experiences them. So perhaps I would just point out few books to read. The scene of myself arguing with myself does make me laugh though :)

And as a closing note, here’s a beautiful quote from Rumi:

Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love.