Time is a river

I view time, not as a predetermined fate written in stone but rather as a meandering river delta branching out from every moment towards a near infinite number of possible futures. We are all drifting down time on this current of moments encountering events as waves of possibility and leaving them as actualized memories in our wake, much in the same way as observation breaks down the behavior of particle physics, our choices create the story of our lives out of mere potential.

It follows then that there has to be a way through this twisting labyrinth of shifting waterways from where you are now to a life of fulfillment. Because somewhere out there in this maze of potentiality is a future version of you that has achieved every single one of your life goals. You need only find the way.

I believe that if we make fulfillment our axiom and just start moving towards it the universe will inevitably align us with the opportunities we need. If we set up clear objectives and apply ourselves towards them vigorously, odd coincidences that otherwise never would have occurred will start appearing frequency in everyday conversations, you will meet people with oddly similar interests and opportunities will make themselves available to you.

Though perhaps that may all be my imagination playing tricks on me.

A sort of cognitive bias that this mindset provides me, like a reality filter for synchronicity: That is completely possible. Perhaps I am just retroactively ascribing purpose to random events, trying to make sense of the chaos of life.

Either way, I am OK with it.

Because after all, every prophesy that has ever come true has done so in retrospect.

So it follows then that if we could learn how to do this pro actively, if we could write our own self-fulfilling prophesies we would effectively become the authors of our own destiny, conjuring our imaginings into actuality, transmuting new realities from nothing but the stoff of dreams.

"Life is just a ride." as the late and great comedian Bill Hicks famously said.

"It's just a ride ... and we can change it any time we want."

I wonder... What kind of life would give you the most amount of fulfillment? How would you really enjoy spending your time?

Time is after all, the only thing that is truly ours, but none of us know how much of is left to us. It is our most valuable resource, the most precious of gift. But also the one we are most prone to squander.

So..

What will you do with the time you have been given?

What would make your life ecstatic?

What needs to change to make that happen?

We are like Jim and Huck, drifting down the mighty Mississippi, not knowing what might lie around the river bend.

But just as all rivers must eventually end up in the ocean, so too all lives will lead to death.

Consider well how you want to spend the time you have been given.

But remember, It is just a ride!

#BillHicks #Time