This I believe
Have you ever been saved by the bell? Getting that last bit of homework done or just getting there on time? Can't wait for the food to be ready while your starving? Can't wait for the weekend, or the end of the school day?
All these moments and more you wish time would fly by like it does when you are having fun or wishing something would never end. Yet it seems to go by in flash only if you are having fun. Time slows down when you want to it fly by and it quickens when you wish it lasted a few moments longer.
It is a peculiar THING we cannot place our mind around. Some people think of it as the forth dimension but it is not... or it is? I don't know, no one can explain what it is.
Yet we think we can measure and control it in simple ways. like procrastinating: "Yeah I'll do it in sec." Or "We have plenty of time, we can do it later." It has happened to me several times, in which I am trying to control- Wait that is the wrong word, how about "predict"- the outcome of events, but it just doesn't work out. Time sort of has a mind of its own. After reading this you are going to spend o few moments of your life thinking over time as brand new constraint that was and now is, yet it always was and will always be. Time.
Confusing as hell. people try wrap their mind around it and become lost in a world of contradictions. Time is infinite. What are we compared to it? We are a speck, a blip, in all of existence, but somehow at time it seems to stretch and elongate. At other times it will force itself upon you and through your life. It will make you wish you could undo what you've done, but it is pointless to think in "what if's". You can't go back. Time is a force. the only point to think in "what if's" is only if you have a time machine and that I doubt.
I believe time is not understandable and a force we can't possibly control. I believe time waits for no man, weather or not he falls in his grave is up to him.
Dear Francisco:
ReplyDeleteI thoroughly enjoyed reading your blag pste, "This I believe" , because that's an awesome topic, man. I think about time and it's effects all the time. One sentence you wrote that stands out to me is "I believe time waits for no man, weather or not he falls in his grave is up to him. ", which interests me because I have thought about this before. I agree with you completely, too. You can't control time. Thanks for your writing!!!!!!!!!!! I look forward to reading what you write next. Peace out!
-Miles
Fransisco,
ReplyDeleteThat was pretty awesome. I really like how philosophical you made it while keeping it real supported by your life experiences. this whole argument of time is really interesting. The idea of time itself is really interesting to be honest. If you think about it time only exists in our own perception. Think about it, there are bugs who only live for a day, a single day. To those bugs that day is their life and lasts for such a long time. on the other end of the spectrum say , a rock. If a rock was truly alive and conscious one of our lifetimes would be nothing compared to millions of years of existence in this world. When talking about about how time seems to slow down or it seems to speed up when concerning certain situations I think that it is all based on the perception. So yeah, great post as you can see your topic about what you believe really sparked lots of thoughts about time.
- Quinn Schurig