The Circle of Time

Poor Deby can't believe yet another year has come and gone.  Some of it good, some of it bad, most of it pretty neutral.  Neutral is good.  It's neither up nor down, good nor evil, democrat or republican.... eh, how did that get in there?  Anyway, Poor Deby has been cleaning and purging out old things in preparation of the New year, New beginnings, New stuff to take the place of the Old stuff.  Not really.  This time the old stuff is going and it's going to be gone to stay, not just going to be replaced with more new stuff.  Enough with the Stuff!  But, can this really be done? Are we doomed to repeat the cycle year in and year out? Are we just chasing our own tails?

While cleaning and purging Poor Deby came across an excerpt she had copied from the Hermetica, a 3,000+ year old book of ancient Egyptian wisdom.  In it, Poor Deby found that time is circular, with no beginning and no end. What goes around comes around.  Nothing is new under the sun.  We won't be the first and we won't be the last.  Here is the very excerpt she found:





The Circle of Time

The present issues from the past,
and the future from the present.
Everything is made one by this continuity.
Time is like a circle,
where all the points are so linked
that you cannot say
where it begins or ends,
for all points both precede
and follow one another for ever.

Yet, there is an even deeper understanding.
The past has departed and no longer is.
The future has not arrived and is yet to be.
Even the present does not last,
so how can it be said to exist,
when it doesn't stay still for a moment? 

What does this mean? Who knows. But Poor Deby likes it and believes it means you better enjoy every moment, right here, right now. Like the ancient wisdom says, the past is gone, the future doesn't exist yet, and the present is even questionable since the second you say "WTF?" the moment is gone.  It's now the past.  Which doesn't exist anymore.  Get it?  Back to the Future meets the Fockers meets the Smoke Monster who used to be John Locke before he was kilt by Benjamin Linus. Don't worry about it. Eat the cupcake now!   

So, Happy New Year to Everybody.  And since Time is just one big ole' circle, Poor Deby expects to see you all whizzing by on the great Merry-Go-Round-of-Life real soon!