Time has a way of covering all manner of sin, but it also has a way to heal the soul and calm the nerves…

In this daily rat race, we often forget to take the time to relax, to enjoy our environs, to react to one another in a cordial way…

The old adage goes, “time heals all wounds”

Does it?

Does it actually do that? Or is it simply dulling the senses and muting the pain that memories bubble up to the surface?

In G.I. Jane, the candidates were told,

“Pain is your ally!  Pain is what tells you that you’re still alive. It tells you to get the job done and bring your asses home!” ~ Command Master Chief John James Urgayle, USN

What most people do not realize is that time is not just changing the circumstances, it is evolving.  Let me clarify, it is not time itself that is evolving (for time cannot change as it is a constant), but the landscape that time is working on is evolving.

For instance, if one gets hurt, as time passes the pain lessens.  The memory may still be intact, but the severity of the pain is mitigated.  The circumstances evolve to a point where the hurt may not completely go away, but it is not prevalent on a day to day basis.

Now, repeated hurt may simply exacerbate the pain, but the passage of time will minimize that hurt.

The application to a tangible, like hurt, can connect the dots for most people, but what if this same thinking is applied to an intangible, like a lie for instance.

Does time evolve with the lie, or does the lie evolve with time?

Does the lie surmount the truth, or does the truth become so inconsequential that it simply does not matter?

Can this be applied to a person? Does a person become so inconsequential that he or she simply does not matter over time?

Does the evolution of time ingratiate the individual, or does it make that individual obsolete? A relic?

All of this is very cerebral, but it does help to put 5 things into perspective:

1. Time passes, with or without our consent

2. The fiction evolves with time and stands the chance of becoming the fact

3. The hurt does mitigate, but is it truly forgotten?

4. Never underestimate the passage of time and it’s effects on the landscape of perception

And finally…

5. Whoever came up with the notion of perception being reality probably never heard of M-Theory.

A very wise person once told me that I should wipe the problems off my shoulders every time I cross the threshold of the front door, and focus on the positive…

Well, I married that person!

Through the wonders of modern technology, I can transport myself back to all of the good times and realize that time does evolve… It evolves in the way you want it to, but only if you are there to realize it!

Thanks honey, I’m trying…