I Miss My Childhood

Why is childhood our paradise lost? I think it is the absence of limits, measures, numbers in time that makes it paradise. We don't know that time is measurable, and therefore finite . Or better said, we do not look at it as something measurable yet.

In our childhood time is not a succession or a line. There are not many moments. Only the moment exists. The one and only moment. Everything is contained there. Eternity. Time is not a hourglass where sand falls down unstoppably. Time is the grain of sand that contains the universe. And it is in our hands. We are kings.

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novembermoon · 51-55

This is a wonderful thought. 'Time is the grain of sand that contains the universe'. Reminds me of William Blake's Auguries of Innocence. You have said it so perfectly. It is how we feel at that moment that lasts. This brings me back so many years.

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novembermoon · 51-55

Some things are eternal. They don't die, even though the people or the places are no more. Those moments exist in our memories. And we honor them. Because they make daily living more bearable.

Cierzo · M

@novembermoon: Exactly.
If someone asked me 'do you want to leave something in the world when you die?', I would answer 'good memories'.

novembermoon · 51-55

@Cierzo: indeed, good memories. They are our treasures.

twistermind · 51-55, F

I was talking with my mum about why when adults we have the feeling that time passes faster than when we are kids. I didn't get to give an answer.
What you say could give an answer.
As you say when a kid we focuss on the present moment. We are not in the present thinking about what we lived, or projecting the future. A kid focus so much in living the monent. For him, it doesn't exist anything else as the game he's playing or the activity he's now doing.

Cierzo · M

It is a wonderful feeling. You are the master then. Later time becomes the master and us the servants 😞

twistermind · 51-55, F

@Cierzo: I don't understand.

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