Stop the World I Want To Get Off

Sometimes I think that it would be a nice experience if one could start his/her life from the end and work ourselves to the beginning. I might be a worthwhile experiment and one that I would readily volunteer for. Wouldn't it be great to come into this world with an abundance of experience? You might counter with that it would take all the fun out of life. It might be boring knowing all the answers to our pitfalls.

What would you think of being born say at 85 years of age and living to 0? I know, you think I'm nuts. As it stands now, given the average life span say of 80, we are born having to learn everything from walking to talking and being able to feed ourselves etc. and ending up in many instances where we cannot walk nor talk nor feed ourselves any longer. Someone has to take care of us as a baby and also when we're old. As a baby it's easier because we're innocent. But it's hard to take care of an elder because of all the baggage they've accumulated.

The motive for reversing the life cycle is that as I get older, I don't fear death, I fear not having enough time to accomplish all I want to do. Being born with the wisdom of an elder would save so much time wasted on youth. As an example, when I was in elementary and high school I was exposed to some of the finest literature ever written. Back then, most of this reading was wasted because I had a hard time comprehending. Now as I'm older, I've gone back and started to read the likes of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, DeMappausant, Dante and Shakespeare etc. and have discovered some of the world's richest treasures. What was once gobbledygook now makes so much sense.

Oh, just think what it would be like having the wisdom of old age and the vitality and strenght of youth. Some of the benefits might be a reduction in the crime rate, divorce rate and less incidences of violence. The world would definitely be a more peaceful place. I think the possibilities are endless.

I know it's far fetched - it would have made a good script for Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone, but it's good to dream once in a while.

Well enough dreaming for a day, it's time to live and make prudent use of all the time that I have now. Who knows how much sand is left in my life's hourglass.

There was a Broadway play entitled which was later made into a movie, Stop The World I Want To Get Off. I often think of this title whenever my life gets very hectic. Wouldn't it be nice if we could do just that, stop the world and get off for a bit to catch some rest (smell the coffee or the proverbial rose). I picture myself riding on a merry-go-round. Once it reaches the speed that I start getting dizzy, I have the power of telling the operator to stop it so I can get off. Our world is a merry-go-round spinning (rotating) on it's axis as it makes it yearly journey around the sun.

If I can't stop it, maybe I can reverse it's course.