Keep Your Head

Did you ever notice that some events in your past stand out in sharper and sharper clarity as you recede from them while others disappear and are forgotten?
Why is this?

It seems that there is a different kind of energy at work here that directs our attention to these kind of moments to teach us something. It's as if a kind of energy "collects" around these moments. Almost as if there is some connection allowed for by some kind of energy transfer between the present and the past, where the past is "enriched" and becomes alive and can grow and transform.

It's as if there is a kind of energy that "directs" our attention to such moments. Almost as if we have two attentions. It's as if the first kind of attention directs our awareness to the "everyday" world so as to allow us to maintain order in the present moment from the entropic elements that enter it from the future. Then there seems to be a second kind of attention that directs our attention to these past moments and this energy makes a "connection" that enriches those past moments in such a way that they teach us things and it seems that this energy also connects these moments with other moments. Perhaps these energetic connections can actually transform the past and allow it to grow much in the same way a rose may grow from the light of the shining sun? This then, perhaps, can then enrich the present and allow it to change and grow also.

Perhaps there is even a third kind of attention, a third kind of energy, an energy of even a higher order then the second, that connect us in some way with our future instead of the past, and this third kind of attention connects the future with the present in some way, which connects non-actual but, nonetheless very real events in our future, with our present, that is, it connects us with very real events in the future that are still wholly virtual, but have not yet manifested yet in the present? But I'll stop here.

I remember an event that stands out in my mind. I was working repairing the pump in an acid bath at a company that made integrated circuit chips. The acid baths are one way in which they etch the circuit substrates onto the silicon wafers that produce the integrated circuits. Well, I was at that time very inexperienced and I forgot to turn off the electric pump that circulated that corrosive acid in the basin it was circulating in. So I slowly started to remove the head of the pump and the concentrated hot sulfuric acid suddenly began to spray all over me from the high pressure. I tried to desperatly get the head of the pump back on, but it was to no avail because the pressure was too great. Fortunately the experienced operator of the acid bath quickly reacted rightly and hit the off button of the pump, immediatly stopping it from squirting hot acid all over me. Fortunately I had my protective suit on and I immediately took a water shower by a sprinkler nearby that was there in the event of such emergencies. No one was hurt but it was indeed quite a shock.

Knowledge protects.

Now why does my attention get drawn to this event, even without my conscious volition sometimes? And why does this event stand out in my mind above other events? Maybe it relates to the second attention I mentioned above. Maybe. Maybe the event was teaching me, and this knowledge would be telling me something about the future? Maybe the message was to...keep my head?

Maybe.