WRITING PROMPT
Blue Insights Cultural Prompts — October 2020
You can run, but you cannot hide from time
“Time is the best teacher, unfortunately, it kills all of its students.” Robin Williams
Death is the universe’s way of reminding us to live. There is deadline out there for all of us, ticking away somewhere, but the trouble is we do not know when that alarm is due to ring.
I imagine it as a huge shelf of old alarm clocks, all madly doing the tick tock thing, and when one goes off, it is someone’s turn to move on from this world.
Without this deadline nothing would get done. Time forces us to choose what is important and what can be left alone.
As you age, this concept accelerates, and one day, you are sitting alone with a glass of wine contemplating your life, and it hits you hard, first in the head and then you can feel it pounding on your chest. For the first time, you realize you do not have enough time left in your life to do all the things you promised yourself you would get to “someday.”
This is the day you have to prioritize your life. This is the day you are forced to choose what must be done and then let go of the old dreams you have carried around for so many years but are now just not possible because…well, you just do not have enough time.
But you do not have to be old to get run over by this self-realization. You have a parent die and you realize you are next. Someone close to you, and still young, is gone and you get that quick punch in the gut that only by the grace of a forgiving universe that could have been you.
As Robin Williams said, “Time is the best teacher, unfortunately, it kills all of its students.”
The Cultural Prompt for October is all about you
If I only had one more day I would…..
Five outstanding contributions sparkled in our “Cultural Prompts —September 2020”
Out Of Breath
Of Butterflies and New Beginnings
Painful Slavery To Freedom of Heart
The Shape of The Moon
Evolving
by Ivette Cruz
