A Question of Time
“I am afraid we have eyes bigger than our stomachs, and more curiosity than capacity. We embrace everything, but we clasp only wind.” — Michel de Montaigne
I think it really only comes down to a question of time. Pile up the amount of food someone eats over a lifetime and I doubt their eyes will desire more. Capacity is similarly time-sensitive and perhaps the saddest state of being is discovered by those who outlive their curiosity. And finally, the “clasping of wind”: this is only true if we believe that we lack time and consequently dart from one thing to the next, always beginning and abandoning but never loving and living.
Really, what Montainge is saying is this: “I am affraid we don’t have enought time.”
I say we do, but we just need heavenly patience and perserverance.
March 8th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
I don’t think that is what he is saying. Instead, a few scriptures come to mind:
“For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.” (Acts 17:21)
“He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase.” (Eccl. 5:10)
Are we so engrossed in getting more that we forget to fully appreciate what we already have? In my experience, true and lasting satisfaction does not come so much from having something “new” but instead from appreciating and improving upon those things we “already” have.
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