Well some people report that in a moment of extreme crisis their whole life has flashed before their eyes.
I’d quite like that but I would want it to play back on real time. It would be good to have a remote so that you can slow bits down and really give them the attention they deserve; to savour those special moments and draw them out.
There would be the temptation to skip bits or speed up the boring bits. I considered that. But maybe we need the extremes of fear and pain to give piquancy and make the moments of ecstasy all the sharper.
All I know is that we do not give our lives as much attention as we should. We take it for granted. We live in a beautiful world in a magnificent universe and hardly ever look around us and say WOW!!!
We go through the motions. As James Varda says – ‘Life is one thing after another’.
You only appreciate what you have when you’re in danger of losing it.
We’re in danger of losing this planet. We’re over-running it with people, destroying the wilderness and butchering the wild-life. I hope we put that right soon! I want my grandchildren to open their eyes, look around them and say ‘WOW!!’