Rockdale County High School - Tempus Fugit Yearbook (Conyers, GA)

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. 1 Y. ' - . I : m.,,f---T W-+e1 ' H f-f S IT HAPPENS, there occurs f , . entire duration of the Q'l A, ,' VIA 'jr once fond only oncel for the 'O . universe a minute period, a tiny slice of time known as Ambiguous Equilibrium. For centuries philosophers have pondered the incessant possibilities of just such a tableau, but, quite frankly, no explanation has ever been proven, and the matter is open to each individual to draw his own conclusions. What we do know of AE is rather limited, and very simply this: that it is an abstract abeyance, having something or other to do with the summer solstice, in which the sands of the sacred hourglass are neither progressive nor refluent. So much for science. For our purposes it is a magnificent few moments in which every element of Creation reflects itself, and the world is balanced in perfect harmony. It is Q a if s I V. il df lf' ,Q Y a dissipation of the human soul and the constituents which compose a fantastic culmination of all we have lived, all we have learned, all we have loved, and all we have lost. It is a mystical excursion lor iaunt, if you willj into the creaking, shadowy chambers of illustrious fantasy and esoteric thought. It is a luminous cosmos, during which one experiences total freedom of the senses lthat is to say one's eyes would be transformed into vessels of kaleidoscopic vision, able to consume several different directions at one time, one's ears would expand into acoustic perfection, and thus be soothed by a collage of unworldly bravuras, and quivering nerves would slowly dissolve under the tickling feathers of every emotion in motionl. At the least, Ambiguous Equilibrium presents a splendid opportunity to find oneself.

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' 1 V. :ss TIS NECESSARY to point ' . Q Q out that the entrance into the F if celestial world of AE revolves around a somewhat common fetish, that being the speculum, or as the aesthetic Charles Dodgson phrased, the looking-glass. Only by gazing into those eyes which are our lc yi wx ff V 0 'I 'V LTIQQX own, are we stripping away all which is cursory, all which is superficial, and drifting, drifting, as meditation slowly melts into a sylvan setting and the cerebral cells of the mind begin to swell, stiffening into rigid xylem. The sun peers with radiance through the towering trees in the Forest of Sapience, and the branches stretch ever outward and upward, shattering barriers of ignorance as every arboreal thought is echoed with a sonorous thud. The timber here is sturdy and scholarly, the ferns and fronds bathe in warm rain of knowledge as the devilish dryod dances below the spreading viridity Wisdom is attained by experience. Experience is attained through execution. Execution is the result of study. Study is guided by the graceful hand of another's wisdom. Remember these words and revere them, for they reflect an element both common and unique in every man.