If you use a fast shutter speed on your camera you can make the water flowing over a weir look like it has momentarily become solid. The water in this photo almost looks like icicles. It’s beautiful and it catches our attention but it misrepresents reality.
Movies are made of millions of single images like this. We run them past our vision so fast that we think we are seeing a moving image. But we aren’t. We’re seeing a series of still images, one frame after another.
Philosophers including Bergson and Deleuze have pointed out that reality is not like this. It’s not made up of discrete moments all stitched together. Instead reality flows…….continuously and unceasingly. Isolating a single moment is wonderful but it can trap us into thinking that life is made of single moments.
To begin to experience life differently, begin to notice the flow, and be aware of when you are isolating a moment in that flow.
Becoming not being.
Life flows.
It’s not like the movies.
Heroes Not Zombies 
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