Personal Narrative: St. Patrick's Day Special Olympics Dance

I often wonder if time is just an illusion. A distraction that keeps us on our toes. Keeps us waiting.

Time, what is time, and why is it important? Well time is a concept that humans’ brains can perceive, in fact their brains basically construct the past, the present, and the future. Basically, time is a measurement system, and without it the human race wouldn’t have ever existed. Humans have a very simple understanding of time, and they still do not understand its full potential. Humans only understand the measurement of time, and the manipulation and capturing of time overwhelms them. To this day the only way humans have captured time is their memory, and even then they still get it wrong sometimes.

We live in a world where time is something that humans made in order to worship it. It makes everything in our very organized world work better and more efficiently, but that doesn’t mean it is all good. In About Time one man has the ability to travel back in time to a point in his own life. When he, Tim Lake, travels back in time he is like the people in Einstein’s Dreams who get sent back in time by debri causing a ripple. He is careful to not do anything too extreme because the slightest action could create a huge difference when he returns to the farthest point in time he has gone. For example, Tim wanted to change the fortune of his sister by not having her meet a certain guy, and by doing this he completely changed everything about

Time is a free force and is said to be eternal. Time is a concept that is said to be perceived by the individual. Time is what moves on, allowing one to grow and reach their peak and achieve happiness in life. Experience and knowledge allow us to transcend ourselves in a different time. Different people view time in different aspects, whether it truly exits, whether it is meaningless or whether it exits beyond our lives. In the novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, time is conceptualized as meaningless, while in Hemon’s article “If God Existed, He Would Be A Solid Midfielder”, time is posited as a “snapshot” that is meaningful and valuable.

Time is what God has given us. The time between our life and our death. We can be effective steward, when we follow God’s plan for our life. We must remember, time is a commodity. It must be spent wisely. Dr. Benjamin E. Mays for president of Morehouse College wrote, “God’s Minute.” “I’ve only just one minute, only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon, can’t refuse it, Didn’t seek it, didn’t choose it. But it’s up to me to use it. I must suffer it I, lost it, Give an account of I abuse it, just a tiny little minute,

I was relieved to see that my group members seemed nice, since I was already the most terrified I had ever been in my whole life. My heart was pounding so fast and I could hardly stay standing. This is what you’ve been waiting for. You need to do this. This day, this moment, would change my whole high school experience. It was the day of the coed choreo dance team audition. A group of three people at a time would go in for their single chance to be accepted into the best team in the world.

Time is a self-evident perception of intangible human construct. A week consists of days, which consists of hours, which consists of minutes, and so forth infinitely; However, time is much more than a measurement or fleeting notion given to each living organism. It is an existential entity that resides outside of the human mind and its attempted comprehension. Its fundamental nature is not one of transience, but one of forward motion, where it not the past that is prepared for, but the future. The passing of time is continuous, with the arrow of time always pointing ahead. But what exactly happens when time passes? The rock band, Chicago, asks this question in their hit song, “Does Anybody Really Know What Time it is?” in order to protest the human tendency to live for the future, and the trivial character of the time-driven capitalist structure.

Imagine a world where time is money, or better yet a world where your body stops aging at twenty-five. Andrew Niccol has created this world in his movie, In Time. Throughout In Time, time has become the universal currency; which is used to pay for day-to-day expenses and can be transferred between people or capsules. In an interview about In Time, Justin Timberlake explains, “You can make time, you can borrow time, you can steal time, and it’s all kind of transmitted through your pulse” (Talk In Time). Justin plays Will Salas, a poor man, “[…] who wakes up everyday with twenty-three hours on his clock, so he has less than a day to live, and so he’s almost like a rat in a maze, constantly running the wheel so to speak” (Talk In Time). In a twisted sense, this actually makes sense. It is not so much future based as it is on current events. In a world where the rich live longer, our society has an abundance of greed, income inequality, and overpopulation much like In Time.

As a result of the coaches, the dynamics between the dancers throughout this last season were superior over the other seasons I was on the team. For instance, during the first three seasons I danced on the team, before competitions started, at least two girls quit each season, and some even quit multiple seasons because they remained unsatisfied with the same issues from past seasons. However, this season, not a single girl quit because of team issues, which shows this season's superiority. Another example of improving team dynamics is the way we all grew closer throughout this season. In fact, one dancer even said, "Because of this team I have found my real friends." For example, at the beginning of my last season, some girls disliked

Have you ever had to audition for something that you have always wanted, and were scared out of your mind that all your hard work was for nothing? Well that’s how I felt this summer when I was auditioning for Claire this summer break.This summer break my summer my studio , Anderson Young Ballet Theater, has this thing we do called dance camp.

It could argued that our common-sense notion of endurance through time is incorrect. That this mistaken self-conception lead us to experience the passage of time. If so, this would be illusory no? And if this enduring ‘me’ is an illusion then so is the passage of time.

The passing of time is a force of this world that can not be stopped by anyone no matter how big or small, rich or poor, young or old. There is nothing any person in this life can do to stop the ever creeping march of passing time. And, of course, there is a phobia that people have when facing the true reality of this phobia. These people understand just how powerless they truly are as their time on the clock just slowly continues to creep forward unable to do anything to prevent the inevitable end. Time continually passing does not only affect one, but the many as a whole. Time can be the factor that leads to recovery or death. Time can lead to progression or digression. Time can lead to change good or bad. Time is an unseeable force that we all know exists,

Time was a system created to help us organize our lives, but isn't it just a ticking clock telling us how much we have left? In order to the get the most out of our lives, we use must use it wisely. In “Half a Day” by Naguib Mahfouz, he shows the reader that you must live life because it will quickly pass you by. He demonstrates this by having the character experience new things, time passing quickly, and showing evolution.

Time is the most elusive physical element. Despite familiarity with the concept, time is difficult to describe. Time is always the underlying assumption in our descriptions of the universe. In physics, it remains the largest barrier to the unification of relativity and quantum theory; some physicists believe time will have to be dismissed altogether if that unification is to occur (1). In more common experience, time appears to be an immutable and often lamented truth; who hasn't wished to "have more time," or to be able to "go back and do it over?"

Time is the product that everyone helps, and also it's control of time that usually