Wish You Were Here...
By Peenabottle, March 24th, 2006
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I find it interesting that I am here today. "What are you talking about?", you ask (to yourself, because I'm not actually even there with you to answer). I have something for you to think about while you are where you are right now. I know, I know, you've heard it all before, but I truly find it intriguing that I have come to find myself here, inside my own body or mind or wherever I am located in me, to be spatially specific. I think that's where I am anyway. After all, it really doesn't seem like all that profound of a thought. Even though I have this strange sensation within me that whispers that I am the first and only person ever to consider that thought (a form of omniscience perhaps?). More importantly is the tantalizing truth that I am the first and only person to have ever been here with me, in here. (As a |
| side note: as you are reading this you will be reading the word "here", and as you say it in your mind or out loud, please remember, I don't mean "there", where you are, I am referring to, "here", in me, somewhere.) Now, if you were here instead of me and I were somewhere else but still had the possibility of being here later, that should freak you out, because until I actually did, the potential would always exist for me to kick you out and sit right here where I am now (I say sit, even though I'm not even sure I can even sit down in here, maybe I just float and get fooled into thinking that because my body is sitting or laying down or doing a number two, that I actually am doing those actions too). The greatest thing about being here now, is that I wasn't here even when I wrote "now" just then, because now time has shifted and now I am here in a different place, because the condition we have come to know as time has altered my current location in me slightly. My body is mildly older and I am now further along into watching this fantastic display of my fingers pressing | |
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buttons and these words show up on my computer screen where, somehow, you are simultaneously reading the exact same thing that I am translating from inside myself onto the screen. Strangely enough you are there and reading this at a different time, and it is now for you, but in the future for me. And, just so you know, I will not be here when you get done. I will have been here even though I was there when I just wrote it from here. Most important of all, don't believe any of this, because I'm not sure I was all there when I wrote it. -Peenabottle, contrubuting writer |
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