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- Story Listed as: True Life For Adults
- Theme: Survival / Success
- Subject: Personal Growth / Achievement
- Published: 10/13/2022
Hourglass
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Life is like an hourglass. Facing the right way up, there are millions of specs of sand, each piece representing a moment in time. Your birth, your first birthday, your first day of school or a new relationship. As you experience it, one spec of sand will slip down to the bottom of the hourglass. This is not a bad thing, it represents you and your life. If something happens to you, that is out of your control, for example, the loss of a loved one or an unprovoked attack, that spec of sand acts as a sand bank or flood barrier in the middle of the hourglass and filters out the wave of new and forming special memories. Over time, reinforcements are added and the sand bank or flood barrier becomes so strong, you feel as if you are two separate people, with two separate hourglasses. The original one, and the diverted, altered, different one where memories cannot be laid to rest, or join the mountain of sand at the bottom of the hourglass. For those of you who love reading, imagine your book case is full. On the bottom shelf are your earliest memories and on the top shelf is the pivotal event that was out of your control. Now imagine an earthquake that sends all your books flying to the ground. You try to put the books back in the right place but get muddled so consequently the books are not sitting where they originated from. Sounds confusing right? The only way you can merge the two hourglasses or stack your books back correctly is if you address the event head on. Forgive yourself. Remind your brain and body that you are not to blame. You could not have done anything differently, so turn back the clock and with a magnifying glass, examine, embrace and reconnect with your original memories because that is intrinsically you, not the event that was out of your control. Only then, will there be a big wave that will break down and disintegrate the sand bank or flood barrier in to a single spec of sand where it can trickle down and join all of your other memories at the bottom of the hourglass, and finally be laid to rest.
Hourglass(Amie Bainon) Life is like an hourglass. Facing the right way up, there are millions of specs of sand, each piece representing a moment in time. Your birth, your first birthday, your first day of school or a new relationship. As you experience it, one spec of sand will slip down to the bottom of the hourglass. This is not a bad thing, it represents you and your life. If something happens to you, that is out of your control, for example, the loss of a loved one or an unprovoked attack, that spec of sand acts as a sand bank or flood barrier in the middle of the hourglass and filters out the wave of new and forming special memories. Over time, reinforcements are added and the sand bank or flood barrier becomes so strong, you feel as if you are two separate people, with two separate hourglasses. The original one, and the diverted, altered, different one where memories cannot be laid to rest, or join the mountain of sand at the bottom of the hourglass. For those of you who love reading, imagine your book case is full. On the bottom shelf are your earliest memories and on the top shelf is the pivotal event that was out of your control. Now imagine an earthquake that sends all your books flying to the ground. You try to put the books back in the right place but get muddled so consequently the books are not sitting where they originated from. Sounds confusing right? The only way you can merge the two hourglasses or stack your books back correctly is if you address the event head on. Forgive yourself. Remind your brain and body that you are not to blame. You could not have done anything differently, so turn back the clock and with a magnifying glass, examine, embrace and reconnect with your original memories because that is intrinsically you, not the event that was out of your control. Only then, will there be a big wave that will break down and disintegrate the sand bank or flood barrier in to a single spec of sand where it can trickle down and join all of your other memories at the bottom of the hourglass, and finally be laid to rest.
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Shelly Garrod
10/19/2022A very thought provoking story. I love your hourglass symbolizism. Well done Amie.
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Mike
10/15/2022What an awesome resemblance you have drawn here. You have just shown the bigger picture to everyone. Such a big message you have given through this piece is that we should not worry about the things that are not in our control. I really liked your writing, keep it up.
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