How far up?

A shift in understanding of how reality works often feels like a lump in a throat.. hard to take in at once and harder to avoid.

Been reflecting on how perception is inate to one’s own ability (or their lack of) to see things and seldom the reality. Yesterday a simple thought exercise highlighted something remarkably impactful.

Imagine yourself under a tree and a kid passes by then fades into a horizon. While you are in the present state, you have noticed a shift of time moving. A child appear in the present state and then becomes a past as he moved away from your optical lens. Now imagine yourself on top of a tree.. you can see the child moving past the tree and a bus coming your way.. you are now witnessing past, present and future all at once.

Does height changed the reality or has it been always the case? All things are happening in the present moment.. people you met, memories you made, new experience unveiling each day are all happening at the current moment except our perspective is too narrow to see it all. The photon coming through your window touching your skin is the same that first emitted when a star was just born and it took nearly no time to reach you but based on relative coordinates and perspective it has taken light years.

Nothing ceases because how can it.. entropy is a law! Perception is not always a reality.

How far up do I need to go to see everyone and everything I want all at once?? That’s a question for another day..