Remote Control of Life

It’s a strange phenomenon when one goes through ones day at sixty seconds per minute. I say it’s a strange phenomenon as I don’t think I’ve ever actually gone at that speed through a day. I know logically we are all moving at a rate identical to each other, but life is no place for logic. Neither is a blog.

A good friend of mine, who I’m currently living with incidentally, wrote on her Facebook status ‘where’s the pause button on the remote of life’. This little splurge of synaptic gunge got me thinking, as so many things often do (and lets face it, if a cup of tea can inspire an article about inspiration, imagine my thinking when looking at Facebook! It’s like looking into a box of psychological chocolates).

Having recently acquired a job (and it was acquired, my employment tends to occur at random, like a sneeze), I’ve noticed that my day speeds up and slows down at a rate of knots (or not as the case may be). My mornings can occasionally fly by like a stolen kiss in a club, while my afternoons can (sometimes) drag like the leg of a lame pigeon tied to a brick (What a fantastic image, a prize for the first person to draw that and send it to me!).

It really depends on what one wants from the time they experience and how they go about getting it. I’ve found that the old adage ‘time fly’s when you’re having fun’ can sometimes be spot on, however I’ve had moments of sheer ecstasy which have seemingly lasted forever. Conversely to that, I’ve also experienced boredom beyond anything I can express in words, which has flown by quite reassuringly.

I have always thought life to be like a broken TV set; you get so many channels and programmes, characters and plots, twists and turns, loves and losses, but all in a haphazard array of images tied together by moments of static and bluster. And there’s something beautiful and exciting about that.

Imagine if we had that remote my friend (and current landlady lest we forget) mentioned. You could pause, fast forward, play and stop your life when and where you wanted. Relive moments you loved and erased moments you hated. You could control your life in every detail and have so much more time for everything.

But take a moment humble reader, to think on this; I have a song on my iPod which I was obsessed with for an entire month. I listened to it over and over again, in various situations, commuting and travelling. I incorporated that into my every day life and it enhanced everything around me. I then became bored with it. Now I don’t listen to it at all. That feeling is lost. Those moments are gone forever.

In essence, I think if we had that power to control our situations, we’d become bored beyond belief. Instead why don’t we look beyond the static and bluster and enjoy the highs as well as the lows, whenever they happen.