When we speak about a sorrowful experiences, we suppose (or assume) that the sorrow belongs to “me,” the individual, because I am not able to fully experience the sorrow of “others”. Therefore, I experience my sorrow with extreme presence and another’s sorrow in extreme absence. My sorrow is anchored deep within my body, swelling with pain.

Among all creatures of the universe, sorrow may be most related to the emotions within mammals, including interactions between humans. Sorrow is usually related to a suppressed subject, repressed desire or pain that – in spite of mourning – has no end. Everyone is alone in her or his suffering. One’s agony may not be measured nor understood by others. Agony is not the consequence of a disease for which we can seek treatment; rather it is the most intuitive reaction we might show when faced with loss. Thus, we can call this “loss” – which is a result of contradiction between our desires and idealizations within an existing reality – an immature but inevitable death of our desires.

Desire is a painful set of relationships which are always at the threshold of collapse. Due to this tenuous reality, we attempt to gain mementos from the last moments of its presence, before the moment when desire is lost in the unequal battle with reality. This battle is enduring and like a consistent medication, leads us to remember how impossible it is to protect our desires. These memories exist with prolific energies that have a strange power, disturbing the functions of the bodily organs, sometimes in the form of a vague sign, sometimes in the form of a “goiter” (swelling); displaced desire within a whirlpool of demands and drives.

Time is an invisible phenomenon, which governs our world and is always accompanying us like a shadow everywhere. We ca feel its presence in our heart beat or in the moments of waiting for a due date. We can consider it merely the result of our approach to the world. Indeed not to some part of reality of the world but rather our imperfect knowledge of truth of the world. Because if we knew the truth of the world, there would be no concept called time.

Our mind uses time to determine the chain of developments and changes of the world. Because of this, time is an abstract concept whose understanding and measurement differs depending on various attitudes. In fact, the concept of time, because of its nature, is complicated and ambiguous which is the result of its being fluid. Sometimes it swallows part of the life like a tyrant power and sometimes it presents life so calm that one thinks there is no end for it. Its power is neither … nor visible, but like a wheel, it makes the life move.

Time can be the pre-condition of all phenomena; the unmediated condition of internal phenomena and the mediated condition of external phenomena. We have somehow specified its external form through making measurement devices. But what is its internal form? We know that a trip in internal space, is the manifestation of spatiality of time experience. But its temporal course is much different. In the course of time, a past that has passed can make the present again. It means that the history can be restored in various forms and versions of the present time; because no present time exists in itself, its being rather depends on its relation to an expansion. In its definition, any moment has a hidden or virtual existence and time is nothing except a moment in dissemination.

Growth is a significant concept that not only is observed through nature and physical processes of the body, but also in a more internal sense. Growth occurs with our views, feelings and throughout the course of our lives. Growth may continue down a specific path, becoming sustained, or start a new trajectory. In another light, it can exist in a dual state: covering a primary form, hiding or magnify it for greater, myriad manifestation.

In fact, the different stages of growth within our lives is similar to the lives of plants. They begin from roots and its stem, growing with intense vertical movement or spreading over vast surfaces. Perhaps it is a stem, which grows under or near the Earth’s surface, horizontally creating its own nodes, small leaves and offshoots. It may lack a certain structure and have an uncooperative existence with great ambiguity. In the other words, they exist with a logic that is not easily understandable – a logic of their own. It has no beginning, no ending and is always liminal, in between the soil and sky.

In any case, growth occurs throughout life. What is most important here is form and shape; the ground which determines one’s rate of success or failure, growth or death. How much does the ground aid in this continuous growth, or any growth at all? How does it begin to behave when a specific path is imposed upon it? These are just a few questions around growth and its conditions, answers that may be the outcome of a greater passage of time.