There are very few things in life that nobody can escape …. Time chases us all like lion determined to catch its prey and yet we try to run, so certain we can outrun its claws. It’s stronger, more powerful and insightful enough to know it will win. But I among the rest fail to notice it passing until it hits like a brick and knocks you out cold.

 

A year and a half ago, I made a decision to do something I loved more and despite all the ideas I had and the web of creativity I was weaving in my mind, the ticking hand in the corner of my screen won out, as it does so often. When I think of all the hours, days and months that have passed, I try to remember all the things that consumed them and still I come up blank, with only a handful of things that have happened. Even then though, they did happen and I stood front and centre allowing my choices to be constructed solely on time. Things have to be done, life has to go on, but every once in a while, I wish I could grab the blank canvas and paint whatever I desire, with no plan and no deadlines.

 

I have a desire to spend my time differently, to negotiate the ‘ticktock’ soundtrack of my day and mould it into something remarkably different. It’s ours to structure and form, even if it’s only five minutes we have to play with.

 

Nothing seems quite so big right now as my annual clock is about to reset….

 

Love Elisciah X