Running Around in Circles

“Who has seen tomorrow? Live in the moment” One might have heard people propounding and speaking these lines over and over again, countless times, more often than not to people in distress. Like an endless loop of convincing optimism. It is as if a data analyst reduces the granularity of the data extracted from the database only focusing on today, seeing only one speck from the countless grains of the infinite volume. Just one dot i.e. today. But are humans actually capable of not just existing but being in a particular moment?

Our minds are capable of impossible feats. When our bodies had given up our mind pulls up the hope for the future, future in which one breathes, smiles and enjoys. We find hope from our past too and then we apply it to our present state, even in that scenario we are not living in the moment. We are beings capable of living in many time zones. But according to Droid, our perception of time is still naïve. As Kahlil Gibran has said On Time that,”Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.”, our frame of reference shows time only as moving forward, hands of a clock moving forward second after second adding 86400 seconds a day. But what really bothers Droid is that if the planets orbit around the Sun in an elliptical orbit, getting the same sunrise same sunset day after day, then how can the time itself be linear? Even the dials of an analog watch are circular, contrasting the entire time is linear concept. Droid had read an interesting article that stated that when humans die, then in the last eight minutes their brain replays the entire lifetime, all the choices made, all the circumstances avoided and all the opportunities grabbed. What if we as humans are just rewinding to begin afresh, to start the clock from zero again. Talking about death Droid even mentions that people even often say that “it was not his time to go, he went too soon, he should have lived longer”, humans put things into their perspective and even death cannot escape from fitting itself into the human point of reference. Death has a particular time, it is never too early, never too late, there lies no existence beyond it, after it there are no roads two roads from which one can choose a particular but what about rebirth then?

From an external frame of reference every moment is but a speck, everything that has happened, is happening and will happen has been concentrated into one speck, one dot. And as one zooms in one can see the years, months, days, hours and seconds. Even Steve Jobs had said that we can connect the dots backwards and never forward. From our frame of reference, we as humans are incapable of understanding the circular nature of time maybe it is because of our emotions too derived from our past, applied to the present and prudent for our future, these emotions sometimes constrict us from living in the moment. Again, speaking from a different perspective, one billion years on earth can be one second on same place else, just a moment from dinosaurs roaming to kim jong’s threatening, all in one moment. Can you live in this moment now? No, this moment is too large for us humans to comprehend. Droid believes that time is like a fountain throwing out water from the top but sucking the same water from below, repeating itself countless number of times. It is not the question of living in the moment anymore, it is about circularity or linearity of time. Time and Money two things that have made us run our lives in a particular fashion are still not comprehended well by us, Droid hopes that we as humans are not late (pun intended) in understanding this circular thing. What really puts a smile to Droid’s face is that how scientists at CERN are using the circular loops for the Large Hadron Collider to relive the moment of creation, proton beams running around in circles, accelerating and colliding only to reproduce the moment of the big bang, through circles humans want to understand the zero moment of the beginning and these circular loops sheltered with magnetic dipoles hold the key to understanding that moment. Circles again, as Droid had mentioned that “Geometry might be a universal language. Shapes are shapes everywhere; a sphere here on earth will be a sphere on some far away galactic settlement, although it might be known by some different name there”. (https://lonelydroid911.blogspot.in/2015/02/the-language-constriction.html, 2015), circles will serve as a medium to understand time maybe then we can live in a moment, and death will not seem so out of turn. So, the next time when someone tells to you to live in the moment tell them that our minds our like the time machines that hop from present to past and present to the future, and we are its time travelers, we simply cannot live in the moment, all we can do is savor it because even the light that reaches us is from the past.