TIME FLIES

No matter how hard we try to laugh we discover that the laughter ultimately dissolves into tears. We meet people in life, have intense relationships that all must end in parting one day. The picture of the world before us is that of separation and sorrow.

Whenever we laugh out loud we find tears trickling from our eyes as if to tell us that the end of every happiness lies in sorrow. The end of every union lies in separation.

Omar Khayyam, the famous poet felt this deeply and all his verses carry this theme:

And some we loved,

The Loveliest and the Best

Have one by one

Crept silently to rest.

Time Flies, one thing is certain

And the rest is lies,

The flower that once didst bloom

Forever dies

Ah, make the most of what we may spend,

Before we too into the dust descend,

From Dust and into dust and in dust to lie

Sans song, sans singer, sans end

These verses should make us more alert to appreciating the companions and relationships in life that we have been granted, knowing that one day either they shall leave us, or we shall leave them. For the picture of the world is that of separation on the physical plane.

In this train of life some get off in our presence while we get off in the presence of others.