Today

Inspired by children roller skating in Elliots Beach

"Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present;
Which very few of us do" - Jean de la Bruyere

I was just walking by a skating ring where children were having their fun roller skating, it seemed like they enjoyed it despite slipping down to the ground frequently. It never bothered them after all they were enjoying it but I just paused when a parent came running anxiously to take her kid away. I could imagine the parents having fun during their childhood but would they be the same now? Would they enjoy the moment despite knowing they are bound to fall to ground?


They think too much don't they?Or should I say 'we'? Would we skate with the same enthusiasm as we would have in our childhood? Will the thought of falling which might happen eclipse our pure joy?After all life's about falling down and rising up isn't it.

"You have to wake up a virgin each morning" - Jean Louis Barrault

I wonder where it all changes, I wonder if it has anything to do with growing up, of course being careful ain't bad but being too cautious about the future is the killjoy.Are we thinking too much about what the consequences might be?Of course it keeps you safe and may be that's what is intelligence but we miss the moment we miss the fun.

Time is pretty much unforgiving, it gives us just one shot at it and once its past it remains past.Unless Einstein was right with his theory of relativity and we could travel with the speed of light or if idea in the movie 'Inception' is possible then we can live in dreams for centuries and life's long enough for you to ponder over the past and wonder over the future. But hey lets get back to reality, life is short.

"We are always getting ready to live but never living" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now I don't say pondering over the past or planning for the future is bad but overdoing it robs from us the beautiful today.We wouldn't wanna keep thinking too much into the future and then end up finding ourselves having a nothing past.


The past was a bunch of todays that you lived and future are the ones you will.You can make it all beautiful by,So simple ain't it?