Modes of Continuation

In the body, there is the time created by being young and the time created by the body's aging. In the time of the body's youth, the world beyond the body appears immense and full of life and threat, freedom and vivacity. As the body ages, the world no longer appears as it once did, and seems indifferent and strange and not so desirable. The inner world of memory becomes greater, burdensome even, and seems to engulf the aging body, pulling it backward like an undertow, out of the forward flow of time. Thus time in its forward movement seems to belong to the young and in its backward movement seems to belong to the aging.