Time... and you...

There are moments in our present when we get a brief glimpse of our past or a possible future. If we are lucky and if we are paying close enough attention, if we recognise the moment, we can see the past, the present, and a future all come together... Though we measure time if if it were a straight line, it does not travel that way. Time is magic and it shifts, speeds, slows.... It swirls through our lives, it does not always push us from moment to moment. 

We can see all of the moments that lead right up to this one special moment... we can see where the next moments can lead... And at that precise moment, we can feel the swirl of time like a soft wind bringing everything together... granting this brief gift of seeing what was, what is, and what may yet come...

Yesterday, I was lucky to see one of those moments...

I was lucky enough to see you in a moment when you were at your best but did not feel that you were... when you were radiant with beauty though you did not feel that you were... when your smile shone out even though you were holding yourself in... when you floated above a crowded room though you felt like you were drowning in it...

I was lucky enough to see you in a moment that for me almost stood still... and in that moment I could see you in the past in front of similar rooms... I know you will be there again...

But it was more than that... it was seeing all the contradictions in that moment and how they came to be.. and knowing that you are a universe of contradictions... that in you there is magic and time will never push you in a straight line...