Je veux tout, toi et les autres aussi.
THE CLOCK .
This was originally a religion assignment. I've never put that much thought into anything for this class before. It feels a lot more like philosophy than religion, which is good in most ways.
Choose a symbol that represents your journey to discovery so far and explain its significance.
What time is it? How long will it take? How much time do we have left? These are only some of the many questions that float through my mind on a daily basis. Whether it’s simply about how much time is left in class, or something as profound as thinking about the grand picture of life and what I really want to do with my time here on earth. The clock is a great representation of my journey of discovery because of the amount of time I spend watching the clock and planning every moment. My journey of discovery so far has involved a lot of thinking ahead. Sometimes I feel like I do not live in the present moment with all of the planning I do. We are taught that it is smart to plan ahead and prepare for the future. Most times I feel like I’m just building castles in the sky. With a curious and wild imagination like mine, I could spend hours daydreaming, wishing much more to be in that future moment instead of the present. I build different paths in my mind of where I might potentially end up.
As Chris Martin from Coldplay sings in the hit song, “Clocks”,
Confusion never stops
Closing walls and ticking clocks
Gonna come back and take you home
I could not stop that you now know singing
Come out upon my seas
Cursed missed opportunities
Am I a part of the cure?
Or am I part of the disease?
It is natural to be curious about what’s ahead and I don’t think that I should give up thinking about my future altogether. However, if I keep obsessing over time and the walls closing in on me, I might miss the present moment and open opportunities. The last two lines of the verse really speak to me because it is a choice I must make. Is this obsessive behaviour of time and planning a cure, being beneficial to my future? Or a detrimental disease that keeps me from the present, only to be stuck living in a mental limbo in my head? I think that in order to move forward, instead of just thinking forward, I should interpret time differently and live each second, minute and hour in the present moment, rather than counting down the seconds until the future.
This was originally a religion assignment. I've never put that much thought into anything for this class before. It feels a lot more like philosophy than religion, which is good in most ways.
Choose a symbol that represents your journey to discovery so far and explain its significance.
What time is it? How long will it take? How much time do we have left? These are only some of the many questions that float through my mind on a daily basis. Whether it’s simply about how much time is left in class, or something as profound as thinking about the grand picture of life and what I really want to do with my time here on earth. The clock is a great representation of my journey of discovery because of the amount of time I spend watching the clock and planning every moment. My journey of discovery so far has involved a lot of thinking ahead. Sometimes I feel like I do not live in the present moment with all of the planning I do. We are taught that it is smart to plan ahead and prepare for the future. Most times I feel like I’m just building castles in the sky. With a curious and wild imagination like mine, I could spend hours daydreaming, wishing much more to be in that future moment instead of the present. I build different paths in my mind of where I might potentially end up.
As Chris Martin from Coldplay sings in the hit song, “Clocks”,
Confusion never stops
Closing walls and ticking clocks
Gonna come back and take you home
I could not stop that you now know singing
Come out upon my seas
Cursed missed opportunities
Am I a part of the cure?
Or am I part of the disease?
It is natural to be curious about what’s ahead and I don’t think that I should give up thinking about my future altogether. However, if I keep obsessing over time and the walls closing in on me, I might miss the present moment and open opportunities. The last two lines of the verse really speak to me because it is a choice I must make. Is this obsessive behaviour of time and planning a cure, being beneficial to my future? Or a detrimental disease that keeps me from the present, only to be stuck living in a mental limbo in my head? I think that in order to move forward, instead of just thinking forward, I should interpret time differently and live each second, minute and hour in the present moment, rather than counting down the seconds until the future.