Time (347 hits)
Category: Quotes & StoriesLabels: Fictional
Rating: 1.83 on 10 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by Hourman (View user info) at 2006-09-05 06:44:25 EDT
Time. Fragile time that we fritter away with trivial matters that in ten years time probably won't even matter. You can laugh at me, but I'm telling you one day you'll look back on all the bad times and go 'Why did that happen?' You'll wish you never argued with your friends and family over stupid mistakes. The worst part is being able to look back on all the good times, but be unable to see how there could be any more.
Young people don't understand the meaning of the word time; they look at it like a joke, a word that bears no meaning in their eternal immortal lives. I don't hate the youth, I'm jealous if anything, let's be honest no old person wants to be old. We want the knowledge and hindsight we have with the persistence and petulance that only comes with youth.
I was like that once, thought I was immortal and never figured I'd end up old like this, sitting in my chair scared to go outside. Yep I fought in a world war and shot too many men I care not to recall, but I'm afraid. I'm afraid that if I step outside, time will find me again.
If I leave this room with its yellow peeling wallpaper, mouldy floral carpet and that smell that only comes with the fetid stench of decay, I never know when time will sneak up on me. Time has this great mystery about it; it always sneaks up on you. Always, but especially when you're happy. Forty years with Mary flew by, and yet two years on my own and it feels like eternity, but for the Grace of God.
God. I put my trust in him now. Sure people laugh at my faith, who needs a God when you have TV to show you the way? Sure TV is great, shows most how to do almost anything, except die without fear. You know what scares me more than time? Timelessness, either way I'm between a rock and a hard place. Without God that's all death is to me, come to think of it that's my hell too, timelessness.
Not literally. I mean sure the chair is a bit lumpy and the social worker isn't coming for a few more days, but I'll get by. Always do. I mean I have a cosmos of questions, all swimming in a solar system of confusion unable to pull out an answer as to how to die without fear. Closest answer I could come up with was God.
My family don't believe in God, and why should they? They got another twenty years before they have to care about dying on a daily basis! I need my soul insurance now. Before it's too late. You see that? 'Too late', time is constantly coming for us, especially the old though; I suppose we had our time here.
I can't help but wonder, what I would do with more time. I choose to wonder because if I asked that question I would have an answer, fritter it all away again until I was here, in my old lumpy chair, in my small room with the peeling yellow wallpaper, and with the smell of decay, complaining about a lack of time I chose to waste.
User Reviews
Submitted by St_Jimmy (user info) at 2006-09-05 12:36:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This is really more of a +1. I'd have liked it to be a bit longer.
But the +2 is to encourage the decent, serious post.
Submitted by a_little_more_time (user info) at 2006-09-05 11:59:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Have another, since "serious" posts oftentimes go woefully overlooked on this site. Kinda sucks, but usually the author is looking more for feedback than anything else, so it usually doesn't matter.
Read it again, still liked it, still thinking on't. Nice shot, chief. *pats ass*
Submitted by hour_man (user info) at 2006-09-05 11:41:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Agreed. Some hits would probably bump the rating up or down to. Beggars can't be choosers though
Submitted by a_little_more_time (user info) at 2006-09-05 11:09:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You know what this needs?
Some Pink Floyd. If Uber had an audio component, that would bump this up to about a +10.
Submitted by hour_man (user info) at 2006-09-05 09:10:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
61 hits and 4 reviews, but it was worth it just to get some feedback. I agree with both of you. Especially on the +2 point. I haven't read much in a while where the authour wasn't the one getting +2ed.
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-09-05 08:05:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I can't help but wonder, what I would do with more time. I choose to wonder because if I asked that question I would have an answer, fritter it all away again until I was here, in my old lumpy chair, in my small room with the peeling yellow wallpaper, and with the smell of decay, complaining about a lack of time I chose to waste.
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I'll +2 even though I agree with DC because, lets be honest, who does write 'kick arse stuff' and really deserves most of their +2's. Very few of us.
I think it misses something. Maybe re-read the very first line or two... it's repetative... I forget how but it is.
Paragraph above is teh awsomeness.
Nice in all.
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2006-09-05 07:23:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
There isn't nesecarily anything wrong with it, (Fuck I hate the word necessarily) it just doesn't kick arse, needs something great in it to get a +2
Submitted by hour_man (user info) at 2006-09-05 06:58:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
What needed improving to make it a 2? Length after lookingat it, with a bit more...something....
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2006-09-05 06:57:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Did ya hear? That crocodile hunter guy is dead!!
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2006-09-05 06:56:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
hmmmmm, I want a 1.5 option for this