Life is like a vinyl record, like an album moving at 33 rpm. The present moment is wherever the needle is. The past is all the songs already played, the future includes the songs still to play. Except that it is also interactive. You influence the tunes to come, just as you influenced and performed on the songs already played.
You're stuck on a record. You can't get off it. The problem with that is ... being stuck on the record makes you vulnerable. Vulnerable to suffering. Drag, if you ask me. But there's fun here too. Some nice songs.
Death is the exit from the record, that's all. Freedom from its restrictions. Freedom from its drawbacks. Freedom from its pleasures too, and you may miss them when you're gone.
I miss home though.
lfbno7 posted on Jan 29, 2008
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quietone said on Jan 29, 2008....
well Lbno, sad to say but my sisters life was a 45, way too short...and only one song...but a good song. I have got a lot of scratches on my 33rpm...sometimes I get stuck in those scratches and need a bit of help to move along... but I can take my time to reach the last song on that album, I am in no hurry. -
quietone said on Jan 29, 2008....
btw, I thought this a pretty cool analogy. -
lfbno7 said on Jan 29, 2008....
Thanks. I have been thinking in those terms a while, thinking that life really is like a phonograph record, and the main reason is about the needle pointing at one ever-moving spot, the present. The present moment is so fleeting. See, it's gone already. Now there's a new one. -
quietone said on Jan 29, 2008....
:)
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