Imagine there is a bank that automatically deposits $86,400 into an account every morning. None of this money carries over from day to day. Any logical person would withdraw and take advantage of every last cent right? This bank represents time. Each day, I am credited with 86,400 seconds to make the most of. Once the sun rises the next day, I cannot go back and relive yesterday. It is not enough to live life only wishing for Friday to come faster, or for when it is time to settle into bed at night.
This philosophy of mine originated shortly after I got home from volunteering at my school’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Special Olympics Dance one night. Several hundred people clustered together under the dimmed lights of the dance floor; for many, the food and candid pictures were the highlights of the night. Although I too enjoyed the food, becoming friends with Trey, a fifteen-year-old boy with muscular dystrophy, was beyond a doubt the highlight of mine.
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I cannot remember any moment throughout the night where I looked over and saw anything other than a smile spread across his face. At one point, he and I were dancing with a group of friends; Trey stopped me mid-Macarena, grabbed my hand, and pulled me away from the source of the booming music to have a chat. He told me his entire life story: from how he looked up to his older sisters to how he wanted to dance normally with everybody else around him. Once finished, he wished to learn everything there was to know about me. “Tell me about yourself,” Trey said, scooting closer to me on the bench. I chuckled and told him I had a big family, enjoyed school, and liked the color blue. “No, really tell me about yourself. Tell me about your friends, your beliefs...” and so I
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.
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.
Time, a river of random sources acting upon the minds of existence. The idea of existence, a moral strife of which is created by the natural order of survival. In history people have related this to the past revelations of the human individual and technology, but in sentience it is not of this impression. Morality is the key to this and is the main reason why even animals realize not to kill their own brethren, or other animals similar to their own niches. Morality is also the reason why people believe because of their own past insecurity that even in the present they cannot find their own future, like a wall across the universe, it is just an excuse and could easily be broken by the universe’s shining stars.
Time, from one person’s experience to another, from day to day, from emotion to emotion, varies more than the individuals who experience it. Yet time still can be measured. People, almost from the earth’s inception, have had a desire to regulate time. This is still seen today, with all the watches, phone clocks, wall clocks, analog clocks, digital clocks, grandfather clocks, atomic clocks, timers, and stopwatches. Unfortunately, while it is possible to measure the actual emissions from an atom’s atomic transition, it is impossible to measure time perception in different circumstances. Both the poem “Time Is”, and the statue “Father Time”, portray the integral role of time in humanity.
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 of the essence, yet time is always passing. Time can be taken or given, saved or spent, but is not always the same for “time only existed when a measurement was being made” (19). Stephen Kern’s The Nature of Time introduces ideas and concepts of how time is seen, represented, and spent. Two key ways of looking at time are through the perspective of Public Time, and Private Time. Public Time, is the universally understood time; the time that we experience collectively and are kept to by a clock or calendar. The calendar “expresses the rhythm of the collective activities, while at the same time its function is to assure their regularity” into what we know as the collective Public Time (20). In order to understand Public Time, however, it first had to become universal. “While the year, month, and day have a basis in nature, the week and the hour are entirely artificial;” therefore, for Public Time to become understood by all, the artificial constructs of time had to become universally joined (14). Although the world was slow to accept a universal time, which would be altered by one hour between twenty-four zones, it soon became accepted and understood. The simple measurement of time introduces issues within time itself, however. Time does not stop and is not divided into bits as it is represented by its measurement. The idea of any measurement which does not continuously flow, contradicts the very concept of Private Time.
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.
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.
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.
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?"
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.
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 product that everyone helps, and also it's control of time that usually