Time passes © Steven Willard
I was standing in a light drizzle, struck by the impression that the picket fence represented time; how on the right, up close, it’s easy to see each day-if each picket equals one day, but as it recedes into the past (distance) the days blur into each other. Can you see what I mean? And the grave markers merge more and more into each other the farther into the past they are. Isn’t that how time seems to us? We know that a day is a day, but the farther into the past the smaller they appear, and the more they blend into one another, even though we know that each day was the same. Likewise, although the grave markers seem smaller, to the people present at the time they were placed, they represented loss on the same scale as the more recent ones. The fact that the markers seem smaller in the distance doesn’t mean the loved ones the markers represent were mourned for any less.
The older I get the longer the line of pickets that merge into one another. The fact that I have a hard time distinguishing one day in the past from another doesn’t mean they were less important, or that the people I can barely recall were less important to me then, time just does that. See what I mean?
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Thank you for your comment. It was just a thought. If it hadn’t been raining I might have been able to come up with something truly illuminating!
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This is an excellent image and great explanation about how time goes faster and one day blends with another as we age Steven 🙂 Awesome work. Sorry about the late comment but I just got my internet service back. You would think with the outrageous prices we pay their service would be bulletproof.
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Thank you, Joe. I appreciate the comment.
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To say it with Shakespeare : “Much ado about nothing” and please excuse it, but I am so fed up with all these stories about a photo, the truth is a photo stands for itself, it needs no more explanation, just a word, where you took it and who is is to see, maybe, in my humble opinion. Nice work Steven. Thats all.
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Thanks for sharing your opinion, Joerg. Everyone is entitled to have one.
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A very observant comparison of pickets/days. Excellent photo.
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Thank you.
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