The Faces Of The Gods

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

The faces of the gods.

Just look at yourself! What will you see in the mirror now and what will you see looking at your photo of twenty or thirty years ago. The face of God, forgotten by you in yourself now, will look at you, because we are inclined, even looking at ourselves, to see something that is not what it is. When you are young, everything seems so flying and heavy at the same time, and then, when you look at yourself from the outside, being older, everything is completely different. It feels like looking at your past. we seem to be cut off from him, there is a feeling that all this was not with you, such a strange barely perceptible form of accepting this genuine otherness in ourselves even for ourselves, even while recognizing your integrity, you still feel the presence of this something unearthly staring into his face in an old photograph. We are actually God for ourselves, and how can we not see this now, but are able to notice only looking back. Perhaps this is a native defense against pride, perhaps this is a natural mechanism that gives us the happiness of being able to be cognized by ourselves, when you can look at yourself and think about your life path and about who you were then and how you are now … Apparently, this is the happiness of a sense of time and humanity, because the gods live forever. We look at ourselves with affection in the past, as if it were not me today, how do we renounce this divine status now, unable to appropriate this feeling, tearing through space and time to you, looking at the photo now, a penetrating sense of connection tells you that the person in the photo is you, it was you who could and definitely was, it is you now, in a different guise, with different thoughts, but it is still you, the same you who, even in his thoughts, could not assume that in in the future you will look at each other and not recognize yourself in each other. Isn't that a miracle ?!

In this moment of contemplation of the past in the future, you can catch the grains of life that you have always sifted out on a sieve, through which time flows, like sand, as the value of being, you left yourself all the most noticeable, all the most significant, and here, looking at this photo, you see all these tiny particles of life that scattered like dust then, but are so valuable and noticeable now. This connection between the past and the future gives something invisible and intangible to both the past and the future, giving rise to that very sense of continuity.

Our whole life is like a queue in a cigarette stall, which is located at both ends of a swing, and while your side goes up and you lose weight, at the peak you need to have the strength to shout out your order, your desire. your manifesto, because when you are heavy under the burden of life, you go down, under the weight of the past years, seeing the light young generation at the other end, you can be left with nothing, dropping down.

Think, perhaps, looking at yourself in the past and seeing what the smallest particles you are made of, seeing how year after year you have become your present, perhaps you will be able to stay on this swing of life and enjoy the ups and downs.

In front of myself.

Just look at yourself!