If our souls live forever—and that usually makes me very scared—then we will either be waiting forever and eventually go mad from it, or we will be outside of time. And that means that life will bear almost no resemblance to this current life on earth. There won’t be taste, anticipation, boredom, development, thought processes, light, vision, temperature, infatuation, watches (obviously), TV, politics, history, theatre, or airplanes.
Maybe it will feel like we’re doing something, always forgetting what happened 2 seconds ago. Which means we can always be forgiven for our twenties. Maybe it will be like we’re experiencing everything at once, and so we just focus on one thing out of that everything, and hold it tightly. But the tighter we hold it, the more we’ll realize that it’s not what we thought, but something else. And we’ll keep squeezing it and it will keep changing. Until we turn around and realize that we never started squeezing in the first place. And we’ll be excited to start with something else. All at the same time.
Maybe we’ll take vacations back in the world of linear time. Or go on mission trips back into linear time. Like if we want to play Dance Dance Revolution at the arcade one more time. That’s what I’d do. Or I’d jump off a cliff. Just to be able to check it off the list. Or be a guardian angel.
Oops. Time to go to work. I’ve got an eight-hour shift today. Long shift. Hope I don’t get too bored.
Adam
Jan 31 2004
10:24 am
If our souls live forever—and that usually makes me very scared—then we will either be waiting forever and eventually go mad from it, or we will be outside of time. And that means that life will bear almost no resemblance to this current life on earth. There won’t be taste, anticipation, boredom, development, thought processes, light, vision, temperature, infatuation, watches (obviously), TV, politics, history, theatre, or airplanes.
Maybe it will feel like we’re doing something, always forgetting what happened 2 seconds ago. Which means we can always be forgiven for our twenties. Maybe it will be like we’re experiencing everything at once, and so we just focus on one thing out of that everything, and hold it tightly. But the tighter we hold it, the more we’ll realize that it’s not what we thought, but something else. And we’ll keep squeezing it and it will keep changing. Until we turn around and realize that we never started squeezing in the first place. And we’ll be excited to start with something else. All at the same time.
Maybe we’ll take vacations back in the world of linear time. Or go on mission trips back into linear time. Like if we want to play Dance Dance Revolution at the arcade one more time. That’s what I’d do. Or I’d jump off a cliff. Just to be able to check it off the list. Or be a guardian angel.
Oops. Time to go to work. I’ve got an eight-hour shift today. Long shift. Hope I don’t get too bored.