MR. RICH - THIS IS AN ANALYSIS
What is time?
Hours, seconds, days, and months are all of human creation. Measurements of time, according to the sun and moon. Yet, how can we pretend to measure something so intangible? There is no ruler, no thermometer, no physical way to measure. It is a miracle that the world has become standardized in their measurement, for there is nothing to relate time to. You can say: one liter is the amount of water contained in 100cm3, and that one meter is equal to one ten-millionth of the distance between the poles. However, there is no such way to talk of time. How can you prove that something lasted one hour, when you can only say so out of one or two people's measurements? Repitition of experiments in time are impossible; that time period is gone.
Age is another human measurement, measuring the amount of time one has lived. An estimate of the life experience, and an instant, lasting label. Still, the human body and mind defy age at every turn. Some getting old sooner than others, some remaining youthful in mind and not body, or body and not mind. There is no way to measure experience, depth of thought, ability, maturity, wisdom, or even common sense. So, we measure a person in relation to the number of times the earth has gone around the sun (or the number of times we believe it has) since he or she was born.
There isn't enough time in the day. Have that done by noon. Meet me at 2. Time. I've got time to spare. Can we really have time? Or do we just spend it? We plan to spend time even before we have it, measuring the amount of time we have left in the day, using it like a credit card. We can save time, but that only will do us good if we use that right away. There is no way to earn more time than we are allowed. It is said that time is our most precious resource. I say that the worth of time is not the amount, but its use.
Is there any way to seperate one's mind from the concept of time? In our society, it is rare to spend a day without planning, or organizing our activities parallel to the clock. I'm going to lay in bed all day. I can wait until 3 to do homework. My day is already gone, I'm planning on going to a service project all day. Instead, perhaps we should first think of what we need to acomplish, then let time pass as it will. After all, why worry about something we can't control?
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i like the idea. i've always been facinated by the concept of time and the analysis thereof. i didn't wear a watch before Christmas when i was given one. the only way that i will wear it (which is a rare occasion) is if it doesn't have the right time. time is relative after all, so i keep relative time on my watch, knowing that it's within around ten minutes of the real time. i suupose that that has to do with my mental timeline as well; as long as i don't have the right time, i don't have to be responsible for it.
That's pretty cool, I can't even wear watches: I'm allergic, and for about a week afterward I have a permanant ring of hives around my wrist or finger or whatever :(
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