How Long Is A Moment

The question I felt compelled to explore here is “How often do you need to see someone, to really see them?”
It’s about running out of time, missing the moment, missing the person you were supposed to meet.

There is an expression in German: “We touched a hundred times and nothing happened. Then we touched once again and it happened – love!“

How long is a moment.

How often do I need to see you until I see you? And when finally I do see you, it might be too late. 

How  long is a moment.

Why do I feel I´m in the right moment, in the right spot.

How long is a moment

Why do I remember one person so intensely after only one meeting and others I don’t even remember their name after working 10 years in the same office with them.

How long is a moment.

How often must we act the same way, until we become able to change our behaviour?

We live in a world ruled by the clock. 

I can measure a moment with a clock or is a moment created when several different people, each in their own time, become synchronized by a simple look- a look which lets them share a moment of togetherness.

Time is our most precious gift.

Sometimes you need to slow down, so as not to lose the right moment.

I can hold water in my hand before it flows on.

How long is A Moment – Essay

How long is a moment? Walking by water. How can a moment become worthwhile?

Don´t think. Do.

A knife quivers in a wooden block. Run.

How long is a moment.                                 

Hundred of rabbits are screwing.

One moment can change your life.

Helicopter.

Interrogation room threatened by female breasts.

A drop of water falls into the water, that one drop too many!

The mysterious prologue.

How long is a moment.

They say a moment expands in proportion to the speed at which you move.

In other words, the slower I move, the longer the moment that I am experiencing.

The faster I move, the shorter my moment.

There was a time when my life became too boring so I turned around and went back.

I just didn’t know whether I needed to move slower or faster to experience more than I did.

Or maybe I don’t need to move at all anymore to reach the peak, to really enjoy it, to live it.

I don’t know how long I’ve been driving.

I increased my speed by getting slower to the point of no movement at all!

But how long is a moment?

A card game.

A man, his face in profile, walks down the hallway.

That’s how long a moment is.

A man sits on his bed and eats.

The moment of the written.

We count the time by the shadows.

He masturbates to the music of Beethoven.

Two people sitting at a table and talking about whatever.

A shot! The moment becomes extreme.

Shout.

They walk away in slow motion and come back. I look out of the window.

A deep breath, exhaled.

Two people pass each other, touch briefly.

A wink, a tap with a long drip.

Then the door is closing!

I´m singing, and I´m also writing. I like you. I used to write then, also, before.

Review! For her it was just important to be the main actress.

Her face, slowly, along the hallway.

The reflection of her face in a puddle, feminine feet walking through the puddle.

Play with me.

A woman looks back. We see him – he is asking himself, does he love her?

He is asking her to follow him. But it´s stuck – the time.

The light breaks in a riffled door glass. Rain on that window.

A silhouette in slow motion.

He left her, and she becomes a shadow of herself.

Sensual or an old mouth, smoke rises up.

Light that reflects in a train corridor.

Time images, in time lapse.

Smoke blows out, everything is nothing.

I was writing a novel about men and women risking everything to slow down the moment, to be able to live everything.

Accidents in cars. A car crashes – everything falls in slow motion.

I´m dying, the moment becomes more precious.

We have to go, in this moment.

We look though something, in the background something moves. A moment.

An opera singer is a moment.

Two people making love, horizontal. We just see her eyes – her pleasure. And a man, who watches her hidden.

Bird’s eye view, she sees him, and is helpless. He cries.

A teardrop is an infinite moment.

Important and beautiful people look back at the picture.

The needle on vinyl.

A look through a hole, to a woman – picturesque.

A very attractive woman. He says: “Excuse me” she says “forget it. Just leave.” She slaps his face.

A car drives. A person alone. He drives and I´m thinking about the lost moment.

A hand grips another. But its grip is soft.

The most valuable thing we have is time.

When you look out of the window, you might see a scene which doesn’t belong to you, but you can borrow it, and enjoy it nonetheless.

Is this my dimension – my time?

Can I decide what I want to do? Is this my freedom?

Children live in timelessness. When do you consider you have time? That´s the moment when you’re truly yourself.

I love doing what others tell me I can´t do.

A woman walks through a beaded curtain. In slow motion. Sensual.

If someone moves fast, it shows how fast and gone the moment is.

A woman’s arse walks slowly up the stairs.

A hallway, the door is opening. Light falls on her, she enters.

An unreal world.

A real world.

A cloud image, that drives into the sky.

I loved once.

Profile, two people. He is whispering silently in her ear – his secrets.

Time check. How long is a moment!

I ´d asked her again and again to come with me.

She cries and laughs during the drive. A drive of total stagnation.

I’m gonna tell you my secrets, come with me!

The woman walks from left to right – only the middle part of her body is visible.

On the phone. The hand in a position like it’s holding a cell phone, but there is no cell phone.

I have no other choice than to abandon – surrender.

A clock under water, ticks on.

Man at a window, looks out and has to stop looking. He turns away.

In another time, another place, our story might have gone differently.

Sensed time.

I’m sitting at the table, there is a flow around me.

Just one moment.

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