Logic
would dictate that time is linear and maybe your watch supports that
perception, but time has a mind of its own and leads us humans in any but a
straight line. How often have you fallen asleep in a car and when you awake you
are completely disoriented because of the distance traveled and the hours that
you passed in your unconscious state? It is consciousness that dictates our
connection with time. Ask anyone that has come out of a coma. Their link with
time completed dissolved during that state of altered consciousness.
We
all experience a lost sense of the time construct when we fall asleep. Time becomes
meaningless during those hours of nocturnal rest. These time shifts can be easily induced
without falling asleep as in surgery or cannabis ingestion. What about when you
are trapped on a plane or a classroom, maybe it is that meeting where time
slows and you begin dreaming of the soft sands and warm waters of the Bahamas.
You have just experience a time shift.
These
are only momentary interruptions in what many see as a straight line of time.
Too often we in the western world are ruled by chronology. We fight against
time and try to put it in a little box and tie it up in a pretty little bow.
But, when we open that box, time has played a number on us. It has left us in
the dust, and we wonder where the time has gone. That is one little joke that
time plays on us humans who do everything in their power to measure time and
try to make it conform to our belief systems.
All
you have to do is ask the Mayan’s about their measurements of time or the
Afghans when 2014 is coming; maybe, the ancient Chinese would give us a better
understanding of time and its influence on culture, or not. Everything we do in
this country is predicated on the idea that time moves in a straight line. We
are slaves to time as we define it. It all starts with that alarm clock that
regulates daily habits. It drives how we educate children and dictates when we
can and cannot work.
We
try to control time with technology. We come up with time saving devices. There
is no way to save time at least not yet. It is not like our artificial creation
that we call money. You cannot put time away and use it at a later date though
many of us would like to do that. Time marches on to its own drummer and we are
along for the ride.
We
have other odd dealings with time. Many people do not want to experience what
we call the ravages of time. Many want to pretend that they not only can stop
time, but they can reverse time. I don’t know how it all started, but we have
created doctors who sculpt the human flesh to look as it did in days gone past.
It
in no way looks as if you have lost 20 years. It looks more like your skin has
been stretched too tight over a drum. That is neither here or there, it creates
an illusion that time has stopped, and in the best case scenarios has been
reversed. We only see what we want to see.
This
technology does nothing to stop the degradation of cells. It is meant to create
the illusion of youth. Aging is seen by some as giving into time. These
procedures may make one a wrinkleless corpse, but it will no way change the
landscape of cellular structure. Whatever time you have on this earth, enjoy it
anyway you choose even if it means some sort of pulling and tucking.
Remember
time goes beyond the spinning earth and slithers into black holes whose
gravitational pull may be greater or lesser than we can hypothesis as well as
their impact on the universe as a whole. If the universe came from nothing,
then we have nothing to lose.
On
the other hand, time is a man-made construct designed to make sense of limited
days that this reality affords us. Put your time to good use or don’t. It is
all up to you. You are the captain of your ship and get to sail it as you wish.
But, when your time comes to an end, I hope that you have filled the minutes
and hours and days and nights with memories that bring you a smile at the end
of your time.
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