Who Has Caught Up With Time?

Written by: Melina Lučkin, gestalt psychotherapist

In the time we live in, within a contaminated social context of “having to”, “needing to” and a race against time, we lose the most precious measure of time: we lose the moment.

Recently I came across a clip, I am not sure whether from a film or a monodrama, which, despite my many years of “working on myself”, made me stop completely and ask myself about the truth that the moment carries.

I will not withhold from you those words that left such a strong impression on me, which go like this.
“And you will recognize your strength by how well you are able to get through the moment, because the moment is longer, heavier and more frightening than time and eternity.”

In the moment we solve, in the moment we act, in it we wait and listen, we hope and grieve. In it is the truth of what is, but also of what was and what will be. Where, then, does our hunger to rush ahead come from, if all the answers are in the now? There is no problem in the present, however paradoxical that may sound, because what is now can be solved. We may not like the outcome, or perhaps we will, but it will determine our existence for that moment, which will find its peace in the time in which we exist.

Giving up the race against time is not easy; sometimes it takes a whole lifetime, but awareness that this is my “theme” is the place of healing, first of the mind and, in time, of the soul.