“We cannot know what time will do to us ... It advances stealthily ... never drawing attention to its surreptitious labours - Every morning, it turns up with its soothing, invariable face and tells us exactly the opposite of what is actually happening: that everything is fine and nothing has changed, that everything is just as it was yesterday "
Javier Marías , Los enamoramientos
It is not denial
the refusal to believe what others know to be true
It is not a delusion
embracing an idea that is terrible and false
It is a much calmer illness
more common too
We pretend time affects everyone
but ourselves
We wake up and say
it is another morning; another boring day
The world changes around us hourly
as those around us come and go
Butterflies circle around us
countless orbits in constant motion
so odd to assume that we can stand in the middle
unchanged
.