Concept of age conceals great tyranny
Is age just a number?
It would be. But instead it represents the years of failing to achieve, years of falling behind, years of not making it in time, years of running out of time…
and eventually, it represents the time to die, represents that there’s no more time.
Year after year we celebrate our birthdays, intoxicated with the bittersweet notion of the time passing, what it had brought, what it had brought not
Each time the same quandary, the same existential qualm, but never do we realise that the problem is not with our attitude towards time
the problem is with the concept of time itself
You are not 40.
You are not 20.
You are not 30.
You are not 50 60 70
Not 15
Not young not old,
Time is entirely a mind-made concept
There is only change
And otherwise — NOW
Age is just another way we escape the truth about the moment,
Just another concept we substitute the reality for
Ultimately, just another limitation
Ultimately, just another delusion
Your birthday should be a reminder not that the time passes
but that there is NO TIME
yesterday was your birthday and today is your birthday
your concept of time is an illusion
there is no time
no more time left
it’s time to do what the fuck you want to do
there is no more time left
no future no past
Your birthday should be a reminder not that you failed to achieve failed to produce a result failed to turn your life upside down and again,
it is a reminder that the only thing you can ever do
is what you can do RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW,
the rest is just your concept of productivity, concept of progression, concept of movement in time,
there is no time for that philosophizing and ruminating,
do what you must do
do what you want to do
there is no time
Your birthday should be the moment of revelation
of how enslaved you were by the notion of time
Your birthday should be the moment of liberation
from the unending yoke of becoming
So drink and be merry!
Tomorrow you may die!
Do what you want to do!
Forget all your nonsense duties commitments plans ideas!
Just do what the fuck you want to do!
There’s no time!
There’s no time.