When time slowed down…

 I was walking along trying to keep up with space flying by me. Events, people, emotions all were fleeting. I desperately tried to slow it down…knowing I was missing the moment, no sooner did I catch up with it, it had passed and I had to move on. Chasing had become the norm, so much so that when time did slow down, I was wondering what to do with the extra time. During such a moment, which was flying by me, I found myself walking through an airport. It was filled with people, people with a purpose, a purpose to get to where they wanted to get to. Wait…let me rephrase that, a purpose to get to where they were heading, not necessarily a place where they wanted to go. I was heading home after having met some friends. Airports always make me contemplative. Strange folks everywhere, each one going through their own lives and yet everyone is connected by being at the same place at that time and there is a smile here and a smile there, an eye contact, a conversation. All these possibilities with complete and total strangers. Trust me those are the best conversations, when there is nothing expected in the future nor any history to fall back on. But just you and me here and now. Its simple, beautiful ….. human!

So here I was lost in thought and walking, when suddenly I heard time slow down. This person in white with long hair in the middle of the airport stood swaying in a corner. In his hand was a violin and an amplifier by his feet. The music from him slowed everything down. Slowed the people, no one could but slow down their pace and smile at him. Some stopped completely mesmerized. Scientists have tried to slow down time, wait lets start with the fundamentals, they try to define time. Well its relative in simple words. They try to work with lasers and quantum particles and try to slow it down. Oh well, here it was. It was as slow as a still steady stream in the middle of a bustling airport. The air was filled with music that could carry you anywhere you wanted to go, it excited the creative and human side in whoever it touched. Music has the power to create and slow down time. I had found my way to put on the brakes on a fast paced life. Thank you, I could breathe again!