Step back!!!

When people enter a boxing ring, it's important to take a break/rest after rounds of fighting. Although the fighters may want to keep hitting and keep fighting and keep perfecting strategies, it's an absolute must to take a break. If not, the fighters will fight to exhaustion and burn out. And not long after, one fighter will be overexerted and the other barely alive. Eventually... someone has to step back!

When people enter aquamarine water of the Caribbean blue ocean, it's important to swim to the top, break through the surface of the enveloping ocean to the ever expansive existence of air, sky. Although the sights and connections with the life of the ocean are incomparable to the polluted world's interactions, it's an absolute must to take a break. If not, the swimmers will take in so much of the Caribbean blue, that their lungs will fill with water. And not long after, the pressure of the blue will kill or permanently paralyze the swimmer. Eventually... someone has to step back!

And thus...

I can only assume...

When two people enter a relationship they too need to step back. It's not the initial dance of "infatuation" and "like" that entangles, drowns, and overcomes the two people. At this point both people are completely independent, expectant of nothing but what they expect from people... which no one knows what to expect, but hopeful expectations.

Nevertheless, time introduces itself as the dominator of the hour. Time enters the dance and teaches the two people or one person about love. Time teaches the two people or one person about hate. Time teaches the two people or one person about truth. Time teaches the two people or one person about lies. Time teaches the two people or one person about sacrifice. Time teaches the two people or one person about selfishness. Time teaches the two people or one person about joy. Time teaches the two people or one person about pain. Time teaches the two people or one person about absolute vulnerability. Time teaches the two people or one person about circumscribed vulnerabilities. And time teaches the two people or one person that as he/she/they sit and watch time, as he/she/they sit and experience time, time is not waiting for him/her/them.

Time is not going to give anyone anything. Instead, time does what it pleases. And finally, the two people or one person finds themselves completely drained from waiting, watching, wondering, wishing, and wallowing over time.

Suddenly... two people or one person takes a step back from the dance and realize(s) time is never created, only repeated. Thus, all this time, time has gone by and in time both people or one person has spent all of their time going in circles.

So, finally I looked at the floor and saw my bruised feet from chasing and running for other's pleasure; I looked at my chest and saw my swollen lungs from talking over and over and over again; and lastly I took a look at my face and saw my beaten cheeks from the flood of tears that pour every night. And I realized... just like the fighter, just like the swimmer I must step back. Because over time, I've lost time, and realized it's been time to take time for me.

Time's up....