I just finished watching ‘The Time Keeper’ by Mitch Albom!
It’s a book with massive critical acclaim and for good reasons!
I won’t indulge each and every passage that enveloped the story but my abbreviations are heavy with a sense of parallel discovery.
Right after, I finished reading the book immediately as I went to lay, the song ‘See Where You Are’ by Amel Larrieux stormed within my heart. The lyrics speak of exactly, what the book manages to explore.
“It’s zippin by
Like speed of light
Or draggin painfully slow
It’s not enough
Or just too much
Either way it’s gonna go”
“Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time”
“With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have.”
“When we’re most alone is when we embrace another loneliness / But…Hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved”
“Einstein once postulated that if you traveled at an enormous rate of speed, time would actually slow down relative to the world you left behind, so that seeing that future without aging alongside it was, at least theoretically possible.
“He did not know that the child who asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow”
“But a man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.
“In this world, he heard a constant hum, as if a hundred sounds were being mashed into one note. He didn’t yet know this was the sound of a single slowed moment”
These were quotes that really managed to detail the moments in time, which have brought a sense of measuring eternity. The book motivated me to see where I am. Which brings me back to Amel!
“What you wanted is what you have
Or isn’t it
What you are is out of your hands
Or isn’t it
Lay down your pencil
Computer off
Say not a word
Get out of your car
Step away from your desk
Don’t look at the clock
Stand there in silence
And see where you are
And see where you are
And see where you are
And do you wanna be where you are”
This song motivates us, to lay down what we are writing. DO WE EVEN KNOW, WHAT WE ARE WRITING? Turn the computer off, and observe the silence! This song really enveloped my thought process because, lately, that is exactly what I have been doing lately. Staying quiet and not looking at the clock. There is a lot in my life going on…But I am stepping away from my desk. Just to see where I am..I realize I don’t want to be where I am.
She goes even deeper in the next lyrics:
It’s everything
A vivid dream
Or not worth talking about
The big idea
Until it’s here
And then they’re taking the
house
What you wanted is what you have
Or isn’t it
What you are is out of your hands
Or isn’t it
What we often want is what we have, and many times we feel is that it is out our hands!
Ah yes
Feeling the implications
Of somebody else’s
Expectations
You could elope if you wanted to
writing until the pen runs N2 paradise clarity! (by uniform & random means) 