Godly Time

Time, in the positive sense, brings excitement and joy as to what is to come. You think about your future prospects and think about how happy you will be in the future. It also brings about curiosity, what will my life turn out to be and how am I moulding myself towards this future.

More importantly, time is also a way of escaping your past and all the negative effects past experiences may have on your life in this current moment. Once in the future, you are able to look back at problems or traumas and laugh or reflect over them in a logical and painless manner.

But how does one reach this stable future of reflection and impunity from past events? The truth is that one can only do this through thinking and reflecting, internalising what occurred through comparison of new experiences that occur between now and then. Perhaps events that have brought up feelings of that event, thoughts that bring you back to that event, new perspectives that make you re-think that event. All these are forms of comparison we make to rationalize and resolve to our own satisfaction that of which occurred.

A healing process, where there will be an eventual turning point where the wound has healed.

This would be the most productive way of using time as a tool. However, if you do not relive, re-examine or reflect what occurred in your past, you will never heal. Your wound will be left unattended and consequently heading towards infection.

This analogy reflects the idea of inflating and previous event to a newly imagined current traumatising idea of that event. You’ve blown it up to the point of reignition, perhaps worse than the initial impact.

Therefore, do not be coward. Do not be irresponsible in leaving your wounds unattended. When you are reminded of them, reflect and re-examine them with you new knowledge, experience and perspectives that time has gifted you.