Some say time heals scars, it heals all the tensions in emotions, makes the future diffuse all fears, happiness. Empty soul opens its wings to freedom as time passes. But time seems to bring scars of its own by reminding us of it and what has been lost in past...all the moments left alone, all the emptiness felt within. I guess what I am trying to say is whether you feel this time as something of sadness or joy that it has been dealt of accordingly? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! "As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
no time doesnt heal scars or sadness, if you dont deal with it when it happens, then i am afraid your stuck with it, for a looooonngggg time!!
Moral of the story? Learn from the past, but put it out of your memory. What's done is done, the past is dead; don't carry it with you lest it keeps you from apreciating the present,
Here's a little moralistic tale I learnt in philosophy class a couple weeks ago. Two monks were travelling to their monastery, the weather was foul and the roads almost impassable. On the way, the monks saw a young maiden that was trying to cross the road, which was flooded, so one of the monks asked the driver to stop and he got out of the coach and carried the young woman across the road. For the rest of the trip, the other monk never spoke a word but he was secretly seething inside. When they arrived at the monastry, the monk could not contain his anger any more. He turned round to the first monk and said to him, 'you know that the rules of our vocation forbid us to have any close contact with females, yet you broke the rules by actually picking one up and carrying her in your arms; how can you justify that?' The first monk looked at him and said, 'Brother, I did what I did out of compassion and then I forgot about the woman, but you, have brought her all the way to the monastery.'
tablariddim very nice story, to be applied in my scenario of time it seems the higher the exposure, to that which is undesired but is inevitable for it must be done, the more probable the suffering from this exposure there is?
did you read tablariddim's story? if yes than how do you apply the philosophical concepts within it to my focus of the thread, which is time causing scars. If you have not read tablariddim's story...than please be kind enough to read it. If you are not willing to read tablariddim's story, than please explain why so. If you are not willing to tell me why you are not willing to do any of the above aforementioned...than...such is life...and I accept it.
I've heard that story before. As to the matter apparently at hand, I would say that time does heal, in that, with "chronological distance" comes a degree of perspective that perhaps one cannot have when a wound is fresh. IMHO, it is the time directly following emotional trauma during which one is reminded most intensely of loss or suffering. As time passes, the "void" can be filled with experiences and reminders of other things besides the traumatic experience, and the memories become something one can "observe" with a greater detachment.
Although I fail to see how this relates to the story about the two monks and the woman ... I think this is how it often is, yes. But I think the suffering in such cases actually comes from thinking that said thing "is inevitable for it must be done". Is there anything that truly is inevitable, that truly must be done? I don't think so. I think it is in times when we think of something as "inevitable for it must be done" that we are -subconsciously, perhaps- most aware of our freedom and of there being no "must" that it is as if the weight of the Universe would be placed on our shoulders.
if its any concession, what was bugging you 2400 years ago has been long forgotten (from all parties involved) ....
