Falling through time
It is said that above the arch of the gates of life, it lay written the following: “Abandon all hope ye who are born”. Fortunately no one knows how to read at that point so here we are, falling together, after the very first step we took.
From the moment we are born we begin to fall through time, the destination becoming clearer and clearer as time passes. In that newly found desperation we try to find something to cling to, we want to find a certainty from which we can build ourselves.
And for a time we fall peacefully, content with our illusion of safety and a false promise of tomorrow. But tomorrow will never come and reality is just a dream, a story we tell ourselves.
There is however a light in that howling dark in which we fall, a light in everyone’s mind eye, all we must do is let go, of our illusion, of that which we are holding onto, silence the voices and see the present, the eternal now, the only thing that is true. We are not alive in the future or in the past, but only now, where all fears die and everything just is, and where we don’t fall but fly.
In the end, when you’ll come back from this exile in existence, remember when you pass those gates again to look back, read the phrase above the arch and smile, for before there was nothing, now there is hope.
