The Winds Of Life (Draft)
“The Winds of Life”
By Josh Sang
For the first time in my life, I realized that nothing really lasts forever. Every once a while I look back at those papers of images and memories, and sometimes wished that I would be that person forever. Never had I felt that all these years and moments were just gusts of winds and storms that would come and go. Looking back at my childhood, it felt as if it were only a dream, and never had it happened in the first place. All my good teachers, relatives, friends, places of interest, and precious items from the past have been swept away into the storm, some never to be seen for years, ages, or ever again. My time at school would have taken about hundreds of years to accomplish, had time not been frozen. Every day, I felt like a hurricane was blowing away the sheets of a calendar and pushing the hands of a clock further at a speed of over 200 miles per hour. All memories felt like the season of summer, because it always goes by very fast, especially those fun moments, like going to the amusement park, road trips, water parks, traveling out of the country, and most importantly, visiting family members, who live far away. If only time machines existed, I would want to travel back in time and re-live those moments, change anything before something goes wrong, fix any mistakes I’ve made in the past and make better decisions. Or I would also travel back to time when my grandpa was young and stop him from smoking before he got sick and eventually passed away, so he would live longer to this day. At occasion nights while sleeping, I would sometimes dream about those past moments, live as my younger self again, and imagine if that was happening today.
But of course, I would have to close that dream after I wake up and continue forward. To many people, it is very hard to think back on what happened after retiring for the night. Many of my dreams trick me into thinking that I just woke up and was going to somewhere fun for the day or buying something from the shop and will take it home and keep it there. After I get up every morning, I realize that it never happened in the first place and I never went anywhere nor brought something home or even took pictures all along, I was just in a different dimension in my own mind. Even though I think about the past quite often, I can also predict the future, like a weather forecast that is detecting another storm approaching. Today I could see a huge storm of my future coming ahead at a high speed, but not sure about what was included. Maybe I may continue to pursue education in a 4-year college, and eventually grad-school, or find a job afterwards. For those are the winds of life.
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Do you think that living through memories and the past stops you from living in the present? You’re like me, I tend to live in my mind in the past and the future, and feel sometimes like I can’t catch myself in the present. gI would like you to add a sense of the impact that this way of thinking has on you.
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