Time...

With the recent birth of my nephew and today being the one year anniversary of a close friend's death (William Brandon Vaughn), I have been thinking about this thing we call "LIFE" and the time we have... This will be, more or less, a rant. It will be filled with subjective feelings and opinions, some truth, but a lot of what I am thinking and may be like trying to follow the flight path of an elusive bee (all over the place). Again, feel free to post your comments. I encourage it (and kind of expect it).

Time: A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.

Huh? Though I understood it, how can a four letter word, that is in such common [worldwide] usage, have such a complex meaning? Well, as simplistic as it seems, time is a complex and deep subject matter. I am not sure that the entire essence of time can be understood with our finite minds. I mean, time itself is limited by time, (Hahaha) for it has a beginning and will have an end... Try and figure that one out. But that does not mean we should not try our best to understand what we can about this phenomena.

Time is unique, because it is a constant factor in life (as gravity is a constant factor on Earth), it is indiscriminate for it is not a respecter of person, it effects everyone and controls everything. Time changes a boy into a man, time turns black hair into grey, time changes the seasons, and brings a brand new day. Time is a powerful domain. You cannot fight time; as shown by many of the superstars with their hideous cosmetic surgeries; they still die and die ugly. But people speak of time as if it is a bad thing, when it is not. Time has the ability to heal all wounds; the little child's scraped knee, the young teen's broken heart, the bereaving loved one, the lonely child... time is the healer of those wounds. It is only when you abuse time, waste time or mismanage time that you feel that it is something that you wish to do without.

The value of time you ask? It is priceless. I can be given items, currency, and even labor, and then able to justly repay a person with items, currency, or equivalent labor to settle a debt. But if someone were to give me an hour of their time, I would NEVER, no matter how hard I tried, be able to give them that hour back. [aside] This is why it is hard for a person to go from a high paying job to a lower one. Since time is valuable and priceless, it cannot be bought, it can only be compensated. Therefore if you start out working for $10/ hour and then you lose your job, it will be hard for you to now think that your hours worth of work is anything less than $10/ hour. Though this also begs the question; when dealing with wage work, what makes one person's hour worth less than another's? It is the same 60 minutes, the same 3600seconds, and same 360000 milliseconds. What makes one person's time worth more than another person's? Nothing. Absolutely nothing!! That is why paying completed work would be more civilized (and actually better for business- not capital-gains wise, but productivity of employees- kinda like commission but without having to rip someone off), for if a person is working his ass off and completing more tasks then they would earn more and for the person that does nothing they would earn nothing. But both would be able to manage and maximize their own time.[/aside]

The relativity of time; different situations make time FEEL different for different people. (Again time is a constant and cannot change.) For example, you are driving to pick up a friend while that friend is sitting and waiting on you. We'll say it takes you 20 minutes to drive to their house, for the driver it was a "short" 20 minutes, but for the awaiting friend it was "long." Or perhaps a person on a roller coaster versus the person waiting to get on; the time of the ride is the same, but the person on the ride will feel as though it was a "short" 3 minute ride and the person waiting will say it was a "long" 3 minutes. Albert Einstein's famous formula (E=MC^2) explains how persons in uniform motion have a the same perspective of time. So if a group of people are waiting (in either scenario) they will all agree that it was a "long" wait, but the group in motion will agree that it wasn't "long" at all. In which case they are both quasi-right, for their view of time was subjective to their motion. (One of the rare occasions I agree with subjectivity). However, objectively it was the same 20 minutes for the driver to pick of the friend and the same 3 minute roller coaster ride/wait. The time domain is not different, just the way it relates to a person.

As a child, for the longest, I couldn't fathom what eternity meant. I was trying to think of it with the mindset of; "how long is eternity?". Well we live in a space and domain where time is a factor and plays on everything indiscriminately, but more importantly, everything in this domain has a beginning and an end. Eternity is the absence of time and thus the absence of needing a beginning or an end. So, is that good or bad? Well, if you are in pain and are without time, you will not heal, if you are feeling good in a utopia then the feeling will not go away for time cannot change. (Without the sublime: if you are in Hell it will SUCK; for you will never be able to heal from your wounds, the pain will never stop, and the agony will continue in a domain that has no [metaphoric] walls).)

Conclusion; time is a constant and only VIEWED as relative to persons in uniform motion. Time is only a factor in our realm, God doesn't age nor does He grow in "knowledge" [Mormons] because He is outside of time and is not learning as things go by. (Plus how can an all-knowing-being learn...) The value of time is priceless, I can travel through space and back track and regain the distanced traveled, but cannot travel through time and back track to regain the time traveled. But most importantly, we do not know how long we have here in this domain so it is only right that we make the most of our time and use it wisely. Do not be like the fool who tries to store it up. Live like it is your last day, but prepared to deal with the consequences of your actions as if you are sure you will wake up tomorrow.


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