TRILEMMA / of past, present, and future

Time is an immovable power. When we attempt to expect it, or even to control it, we are destined to feel disappointed and powerless. Between our regrets of the past, expectations of the future, and avoidance of the right now, we relentlessly struggle, and could never truly escape.


[ objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are ] 

Rear view mirrors often have this sentence on it, “objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are”, warning the drivers of misperceptions caused by the convex shape of the mirror. In the scales of daily lives, when we observe the past, we often sigh at the rapid elapse of time, that distant memories sometimes felt like yesterday. 

“ We are travellers of time, explorers of space, collectors of stories, perhaps eternally adrift ”


[ Remnants of Oblivion ]

When our present becomes the past, and the future becomes the present, the past drifts further away from us, joining other pasts, becoming remnants. The future often seemed like both a refuge for the past and an excuse for the present, a place where our fear will turn to remnants and our hopes could come true. 
“ Grasp hold of such slipping sand, in hopes of a rather stable stand ”


[ DONT CRY AT DUSK ]


Toss and turn in the chaotic and hustling past, then disappointed in the dimly discernible future, our struggle in time led us right now in the present. Like a droplet of water in the endlessly river, a breeze of wind scratching through the fingers, the present is like the momentary beam of light casted on the ocean by the drowning sun. 

At the intersection of the blazing day and the shivering night, we become ourselves. So, Erik tells eko, just like Tyler tells the nameless narrator:
 “ DONT CRY AT DUSK “

objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are

Remnants of Oblivion

DONT CRY AT DUSK

The collector of stories
As characters play parts
Of grander schemes in the galaxy
Where nothing forever lasts

From shackles of the others
Staring behind windows
To seek victims to be harnessed
As saviours of their limbo

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