Came across these spectacular lines on eternity in my latest read:

"High up in the North, in the land called Svithjod,
There stands a rock,
Hundred miles high and hundred miles wide,
Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak.
When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity would have passed by!"

From The Story of Mankind, Hendrik Willem Van Loom, 1922

It struck me that life operates at such a leisurely pace and with such patience as if wanting to ensure the perfect outcome of a long thought out idea. The perfect distill! We are so used to cheap thrills, instant gratifications that subtle nuances seem to have been lost on us. Constant need to do something exciting, instant relationships, quick ladder careers, endless sitcoms, sensationalist books..Are we running faster than warranted ..

Maybe and if so then the outcomes are also slip shod and random. Almost like a perfect program, the output never betrays the code. We see it all around us. Very successful people losing complete motivation in their careers, high suicide rates among brilliant students, here today gone tomorrow relationships, very high stress related disorders in young people!

I think sometimes its good to just stop and hear the echoes of our own life and those close to us. Where we came from, where we are and where we are going. Things might look drastically different!