Time Out!

Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once

Time is an interesting concept that one can never truly have a proper grasp on. It's akin moving forward through space but without time, this can never be accomplished as all that will happen is that one will only be frozen in that space as a result of the non-existence of this catalyst.

One truly wonders why such a thing has to exist. It is indeed a beautiful existence. However, like yin and yang, for everyone thing that is beautiful, underlies a sinister truth.

Long before Man truly understood this concept, everyone was just living their lives the best they could. They fulfilled their need for survival, hunger and then their procreation. Day was day while night was night. To them, day meant light while night meant the absence of light. Light can be measured but darkness cant.

THEN! Some smart ass decided, " hey! let's build a sundial so that we know what time of the day it is!" Nobody really knows why he called it a sundial when it can't even be used to dial up the sun. For! They dint even have phones back then. Crap...

Well, after that, mankind decided that time was something that count be calculated, measured. Sciences have made so much progression that the thought of time travelling now sits comfortably in the (unsound)minds of renown physicist. Countless theories have been sputtered out from their brains. Is this man taking time into their own hands? In this sense, is man trying to take over something that is so natural, something God-given that Man is trying to play God? How did Man make the progression as something so blur, so unkempt, so carefree into something so calculative that they decided that everything, and i really mean EVERYTHING is to be controlled by them?

I've always had this quote in mind whenever I sit thinking(while crapping): "Books have knowledge, knowledge is power, power corrupts, corruption is a crime, crime doesn't(actually it really does. Its a truth that nobody wants to admit). So, if you keep reading, you'll go broke!

This quote, while being satirical, has some truth in it. From reading, man want acquire knowledge. It is in this sense of greediness that Man seek more and more knowledge up to the point that they've(some of them) have been misled into thinking that they actually have the power to change things to their own favour. In reference to my other post, Man by nature are selfish beings indeed(I still have yet to extend on it due to lack of feedback and ideas). In this state of selfishness, we have decided to take things into our own hands and decided that WE are the ones who shape the face of this planet. Then again, do we really? Who in this world has the ability to stop the pains and suffering on this earth? No one really. Albeit, that would be the only thing that Mankind has been gifted to do, nobody really cares about the pains of suffering of others. It's like giving a beggar a penny, he'll ask for a dollar; give him a dollar, he'll ask for a hundred more; give him a hundred; you'll just end up being robbed and take his place instead. It is this sense that selfishness of man takes over in the manifested form of greed.

So why is it that Man are taking pains from merely calculating time, to prediciting how things are going to be like and went on further in trying to change time itself? Afterall, everyone is moving forward. Time progresses with every action that we take; hence the existence of the XYZ axis(dear "clubbing" buddies, please explain to me what each axis stands for). Is Man trying to go look far ahead into the future and see how things are like hoping to see the richness that have dreamed of? Or see what despair awaits them in hopes of actually changing their present habbits to actually reroute their destiny. In doing so, everyone has forgotten the impending doom that awaits everyone in their sunset years： death.

Alas, Man has become so calculative so much so that they have they have economically defined time in every aspect of their lives. 'Spend time' has become an important aspect in our daily lives. Everyday, we are chasing hopelessly to do just that either with one's self, someone special or just with a group of friends. In this sense, has time been economically rationalized? Are we no different from Mr. I-am-smartypants-because-i-have-invented-the-sundial? Being calculative seems synonymous with being economical(no, not in the thrifty sense).

While we are chasing so desperately to 'spend time' with someone, I(while crapping) have come to realization that Man(not being a C in MCP here by the way)are actually trying to grasp on to a time lost forever. It's like dropping a needle into the ocean. You will never be able to recover it unless you try extremely hard. But even when you do such thing, you'll soon find yourself exhausted from the search and eventually give up OR you soon find yourself consumed by the ocean. In that sense, Man eventually gave up doing just that and the idea of time travelling eventually gets translated into meaning wanting to travel into the future. The real meaning gets consumed by levels and levels of denial(IT IS more than just a river in Egypt) that it eventually became an accepted truth.

It is in that sense that Time has become a concept so misunderstood that Man has taken the convenient route of merely making it something calculable and nothing more than that.

However, one can take the simple pleasures of time and simply enjoy what is happening right there and then. Magic hour. Its the time when the sun sets, only to be replaced by the moon which isn't as bright but still can afford to light up the night life just enough to slow things down for us all. In that magical moment, everything slows down considerably. Literally. As you are not able to see just as well in the dark, walking fast might just cause you to walk into a wall. Yeah..

But imagine this, during this one hour of your day, the sky burns up in the bask of orange glow. It is essentially a battle between light and darkness. While the light seems to be losing the battle, it does not go down without a fight. It lights up, in its last final moments of struggle, to a bright orange-ey sky; captivating any souls that seems to actually care, stop and notice it. Darkness, however, inevitably looms over and eventually wins.

However, the streetlights light up, combating the inevitable darkness, glowing up the streets, like little soldiers of the sun, on skirmishes against darkness. For while the battle may be over, the war isn't. In a few hours time, the sun will rise up again, combating the darkness away and winning the battle. Like a horror movie coming to an end, it never fails to light up the faces of newborns, oldborns and even those who are about to be 'was-borned'(too bad James Bond is spelled with a B-O-R-N else I could have included him as well).

If one decided to actually stop and stare, one can actually witness this magnificient sight no matter their location. Magic hour, as i have called it because it is indeed magical. It's mysticism lies in the concept of time because in 365 days of the year, one can only view it just as much(and if the rain clouds do not bother).


I have somehow lost my train of thoughts now. If you have anything to share with me about it, please let me know. All criticsm are welcomed with open arms, legs, armpit, ears, eyes, bags and just about everything else.

All these were thought off when I was taking a nice, long morning crap =)