Beyond Space and Time

Semida Silveira
3 min readAug 16, 2021

— Our Journey Is All about Discovery

A girl rides a bicycle in a natural road followed by her little white dog
Image by Sean Wareing in Pixabay

There is a longing that never seems to go away. Do not believe when people tell you it is something that you feel when a teenager and that it fades as you mature. There is a good chance that it will never go away. The craving may well grow if you hold back too long.

If you do not follow the leads that you get along the way, that craving feeling may grow into an unbearable hunger, at worst destroying you from the inside, making you unhappy. You can accept to live with the craving, thinking it is the price to pay for whatever you got. Alternatively, you can try to explore and understand its nature.

How about learning to enjoy the move and foster change? In life, we are allowed to test and experience. Why not explore it fully? Why do many systematically constrain their own space of discovery in time, space, and imagination?

The many dimensions of our longing

Our longing is partly contextual, but most of all an existential quest. Therefore, it is also universal.

It has a dimension of time — it changes as we move across life. It takes different connotations as we age. Yet, it is always there, blurred or visible. We become gradually more aware of the limited time budget we have as we use it up. Managing…

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Semida Silveira

Prof. at Cornell Univ. Founder of Sustainable Vision. Writing about sustainable development and societal transformation. https://ssemida.medium.com/membership