They say that time is relative.
Relative to what? Time is still time no matter where you are. You can't stop it; you can't slow it down or speed it up. There's no magic formula to send time into reverse, as much as we sometimes wish we could. Time marches on no matter what you do to try and prevent it.
Time is time, it is steady, unchanging. That's why we rely on it so much, our reassuring shoulder to lean on when we get into difficulties. We even incorporate it into our communication. 'Time is the greatest of healers‘; 'There's no time like the present'. It is important to us for it's very stability. No, time is not what changes, only our perception of it.
Take, for example, a mere eighty seconds.
It's not a long time really. Not nearly enough to accomplish anything of importance. You may manage to boil an egg; if you like it runny. You could make a cup of coffee perhaps, switch on your computer and wait for it to boot up, heat up yesterday's leftovers in the microwave. Even the average song is over two minutes in length.
Such a small measure of time, it passes us by without notice. Why worry about what happens in the next minute or so when you have your entire life to muddle through? Whatever we try to do, eighty seconds will always be eighty seconds.
Small measure of time? Definitely. Insignificant? Perhaps. It all depends on what you use it for.
Eighty seconds is long enough to be killed.
And long enough to learn to live.
-clairol
Relative to what? Time is still time no matter where you are. You can't stop it; you can't slow it down or speed it up. There's no magic formula to send time into reverse, as much as we sometimes wish we could. Time marches on no matter what you do to try and prevent it.
Time is time, it is steady, unchanging. That's why we rely on it so much, our reassuring shoulder to lean on when we get into difficulties. We even incorporate it into our communication. 'Time is the greatest of healers‘; 'There's no time like the present'. It is important to us for it's very stability. No, time is not what changes, only our perception of it.
Take, for example, a mere eighty seconds.
It's not a long time really. Not nearly enough to accomplish anything of importance. You may manage to boil an egg; if you like it runny. You could make a cup of coffee perhaps, switch on your computer and wait for it to boot up, heat up yesterday's leftovers in the microwave. Even the average song is over two minutes in length.
Such a small measure of time, it passes us by without notice. Why worry about what happens in the next minute or so when you have your entire life to muddle through? Whatever we try to do, eighty seconds will always be eighty seconds.
Small measure of time? Definitely. Insignificant? Perhaps. It all depends on what you use it for.
Eighty seconds is long enough to be killed.
And long enough to learn to live.
-clairol
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