Stream of consciousness

The clock at the gym today stopped at 1.35 PM.

This got me thinking: what if us, humans, remained stuck in a moment, unable to rewind or to fast forward ?

We would be trapped in a single variation of space and time, living the same moment forever and ever. How sad does this sound… To be incapable of going back to better days which filled our hearts with joy, shared with our loved ones…

Suppose the suspended moment was a perfect one – this would also make us feel incomplete, because it would be solely one beautiful instance, replayed over and over again…

If only we could at least have the liberty to choose it…

A childhood flashback of a warm summer night, roller skating, knees torn from too many falls, favorite ice-cream in hand…Times of feeling spoiled and protected, carefree and unconscious of all the struggles ahead…

A walk in the park with your significant other, barefoot, cause the heels were simply too much…Scorching weather…

A cigarette shared in a parking lot, on a freezing December night, sometime around midnight…

Which moment would you choose ?