"I know that of all problems, none disquieted him more, and none concerned him more than the profound one of time."
"The Garden of Forking Paths"-Jorge Luis Borges
What is it about time that makes it seem so strange and foreign to us? When we are kids it seems to have little meaning, we don't count the day out in hours and minutes but rather in seasons and daylight-time when we can play. For a bullrider 8 seconds may very well seem to last for an eternity, to an employee on a lunch break 30 minutes can seem like 5 because it goes so quickly. I know whey I was on my mission some days felt like they would never end; whereas at other times it felt like I merely blinked and two months flew past!
Yet, with all of this we use time for everyhing, we base our lives around being on time, workin, going to meetings-everything is based around a time schedule.
We have been studying a lot of different movements in class and how time can change many things. We've been watching the way that art changes over time, how relationships can change over time and just the effect that time can have on a culture and civilization and it is crazy what can happen in a relatively short amount of time. In my Port 355 class on Brazilian history and culture we are currently studying the 1800's and everything that happened there. They went from a monarchy to political back to monarchy, freedom of the African slaves on to get indentured servants out of immigrants, all sorts of wars and revolts, changes in the economy...! It is amazing how much can change with time.
Sometimes I wonder what would happen if we could go back in time and change things, what that would affect.
How can time be so elusive to us and why does it seem
to move faster the older we get? I don't know if it is ever something that we will be able to grasp in this life, but what do you think?
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