What is Time?

Time is an ever-changing, living, indefinable thing. It is a wise counselor. It cools and soothes a broken heart, clarifies problems that have no real answer, and shows that one mood cannot be maintained unchanged through the course of hours.

“Time” is something that we as humans have assigned to our universal subconscious to make sense of the world and how we perceive it. The past, present, and future are all arbitrary… for time is not a linear vector. You can be in time, out of time, on time (and although these are disambiguations, I say this to show dimension and how much impact that the concept of time has on our lives). Hence, time can be viewed as circular (cyclical if you so desire) or even as perpetual tesseraction (simply a word for the act of traveling through wormholes). It flows unconnectedly, passing as a blur, until you try to slow it down and see clearly each and every freeze-frame that is life, where each second is significant and is etched in your mind.

It's a bizarre thing, that when you are dreading something and would give anything to slow down time, it has a discourteous habit of speeding up. Or when you desire and long for something so much, yet the world around you still keeps its pace. Time is one of the most indefinable and illogical of things; the past is gone, the future is not attainable, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and BAM it exists and no more.

And when you are in pain and you begin to fall hard into a state of a false reality, Time shakes you like wind through the trees. When your heart is broken and you begin to shut down all of your emotions, you fall into Time, and it stops for you. It keeps you suspended between two necessary evils... Do I want to let time continue and press on to see what further pain I may feel? Or do I want to stay stuck in a place where I know that if I let time stop for me, I will never be able to break out of the pain I'm already in? Time gives you these choices... only you can make the decision.

Love vanquishes time. Real Love is one of the closest things you experience on earth like eternity, for it wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear for an end. A moment can be eternity, while eternity can be the tick of a clock.

In an Earth-based interpretation, events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but they become significant to us when they find their own order as a continuous thread of revelation. A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is, and it often makes us to reluctant to learn from the past. We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.


Love,
Kacki