Dear friends and followers,
Finally I have found a little bit of time to publish here at my personal website. As you maybe know I am a very busy guy, because next to my job as an oncoloy nurse I am host and owner of the daily haiku meme
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai (CDHK). Last year (or was it in 2014?) I published an "essay" based on a quote from Khalil Gibran which I love to share here with you all.
Khalil
Gibran, a modern times (end 19th and begin 20th century, must be modern heh)
philosopher has written really awesome books. His thoughts were very much
different as the ideas of the government in his country Lebanon and so he had
to fled to the United States were he became a great man and author in the same
league as Shakespeare. It's awesome to read his thoughts and ideas ... I can
emphatize with him, because he has in a way the same thoughts and ideas as I have,
but ... I cannot really give the right words to it ...
Today I have another wonderful saying of him to share here at my personal weblog ...
[...] "We measure time according to the movement of countless suns; and
they measure time by little machines in their little pockets. Now tell me, how
could we ever meet at the same place at the same time?" [...]
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| Time Is Chaos |
"Time
is on our side", we say, but that isn't true, because, as I look at
myself, I don't have enough time. Several times I had to post a short message
on Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, because of a delayed post by lack of time. And then we say
"Time is on our side". Bull....
What is time? It's the movement of our wonderful planet Earth around the sun. A
day has 24 hours, must be enough I thought, but why do I have a shortness of
time than? I think I know it ... I just do like to much activities. All my
activities are sucking my time. I don't have enough time! I need more time! Why
has a day just 24 hours? Because that's the time Earth needs to complete his
journey around the sun. Why not 48 hours?
Hm ... that's an issue! As a day would last for 48 hours our lives would be slower,
we would be younger. Picture this (sorry I can't help it I love that sentence
"picture this", it's from The Golden Girls TV-series, Sophia uses it
to tell her stories. I like that TV-show) a day lasts 48 hours. (Do you have
that picture?) I am now 52 yrs, as a day would lasts 48 hours, I would be 26
yrs! Awesome! I would be still a young guy and would have time enough.
Would that be true? Of course not as the days lasts 48 hours (a day) than I
would still have a shortness of time, because I still like what I do. I would
have more time for my patients. I would have more time to compose haiku and
share them at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai or here on my personal weblog. I would have a lot of time, but more time brings
me more energy, more ideas .... and for sure I would have to little time. What,
in Gods name, is my problem!?
I
think I have an idea to become rid of my problem ... I just throw my watch away
and let those
countless suns make my day. I have to adapt to nature's time, I don't
need to stay awake until 2 o'clock in the night. I just have to go to my bed as
the evening falls and get out of bed as the morning rises. Wouldn't that be
awesome? Just going with nature and the way of the sun ... That's the time of a
haiku-poet. As I stated in another episode at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai haiku-poets are the poets of
nature, they are the keepers of nature ... so I have just to listen again to my
own words and the words of our classical haiku-poets. We just have have to
listen to our ancestors ... Did they have a shortness of time? I don't think
so.
A lack of time is an "illness" of modern times ... I am a guy who
lives in the modern time, but does that mean that I have to confirm to the
fastness and lack of time? I don't think so.
From this moment on ... no time problems anymore. I just go with the flow, just
go with the movement of countless suns and with the tides.
changing tides
my restlessness has gone
time is at my side
© Chèvrefeuille
Khalil Gibran has said it in the right way ... we don't need those little
machines in our little pockets or around our wrist.
Well ... I hope you did like this post.
Namaste
