A friend and I were debating the concept of time. It started out with a trivial thought about how what we see is what happened in the past. Basically, what we see, though going at the speed of light, takes a moment to be process in the eye and interpreted in the brain, and by the time it has been sent to our senses, that moment has already passed. We see and talk in a moment in the past.
It was trivial, but it led to larger questions about what does time really do to us? No matter what, time takes its course and brings everything with it. This is you, and I and every living and inanimate object along with it. Time makes changes to everything. Some faster than others, but there is no escaping the forces of time.
Why does time then seem to be perceived to speed up as we get older in age? I don’t think anyone has a real good answer to this, but one theory was the time of experience theory. Take a year for example. If you are 4-years of age, one year is a quarter of your life, but if you are 20-years of age, one year is only 1/20th of your life experience. The older you become, our own calculation of time, such as day, month or year becoming increasingly less of a percentage of our own life experience. The time span of a year then becomes a mere fraction of your own experience and so to that, the years will be perceived to go very quickly.
Time is a great mystery, but that great debate my friend and I had, we concluded that time is an energy force. It is felt on all of us and it carries us forward, at what it seems to be at ever increasing speed, till one day we are gone. Time, though, will keeps going on with whatever it has in its wake at any present moment. We are not trapped, but we do need to respect time and take it seriously and it matters. So, try to make as many moments matter for you, knowing that most of our moments may seem wasted on sleep and idleness, which may not be a bad thing, but do the things you always wanted to do. Don’t let time drown you.
