Relative Something

If life was simple maybe we would all live in the moment. It’s been pretty quiet up here this weekend and we have pretty much been living in the moment, even as we reminisce about the past. It’s funny how memory can seem so random. I can’t help but wonder about what the things are that I’ve lived and that we’ve done that I’m not remembering.

For everything we can see in front of our eyes, there is an equal amount that we don’t see that is in the opposite direction of where we are looking. All we have to do is turn around. But we can’t see it all at the very same time. And we’re all like frogs being boiled in water. If you throw the frog in when the water is hot, it would jump right out. But put a frog into room-temperature water and then apply heat, frog accepts the change until it gets cooked alive.

There are a lot of things that I used to think mattered more than they actually do. It leaves me wondering what else might change, in terms of mattering, in a few more years time.

If I had been thrown ahead in time to land at the point where I am right now, would I have jumped right back out, due to the changes I’d found? It’s not that simple.

But, I wonder.