Quantum physicists say that all time already exists. Past time, current time and future time all exist, and it is just that we can only experience time in a forward motion. Besides being practically impossible to comprehend, maybe it is the reason that when I look in the mirror, I see this face that does not look old, nor does it look young. Maybe that's why the face I see in the mirror is a face from all time. In the right light, or is it the right mood, I can see the face that I saw when I shared an apartment with three college room-mates and was always rushing to get ready for class at CSUS, or for work at Macy's for my $1.90 per hour. Sometimes, it is the face that I saw at three in the morning when I stood in a steamy bathroom trying to help a croupy, coughing, crying baby to breathe a little easier. Maybe it is the face of an over-worked, over-tired and over-worried administrator, who has just been called back to work for yet another crisis. Whatever face it is, it is a face that does not reveal a specific time, such as the present. The reflected face reveals all time, the good, the bad, the happy, the lonely, the bright, the sad, the troubled, the carefree, the all encompassing time. Is this what people look like in Old People Land?
RR
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