The paradox of time

"How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future.
How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now.
And that there will never be a time when it is not now."
~Gerald Jampolsky



It has been 53 years since this picture of my mother with my brothers and me was taken and 8 years ago today since my mother passed away. It is so hard to believe that all that time as gone by. My own daughter is now the very same age my mother was in this picture. Too quickly it has flown by, but in my heart it feels as if time has stood still. That is the paradox -- the speed of life passing by and at the same time, the way our memories can make us feel as if no time has passed at all. Perhaps this is how our loved ones remain with us always -- in our ability to bring time back in our thoughts and memories. To see the future in the past and to understand the future through our memories of the past. A paradox, but a blessed one.