March 6, 2010

Dear god it's been awhile since I posted one of these, and I feel bad for that. But these last few weeks have just been busy as hell, so much that I can't really remember a whole lot that had gone on. The one thing that I do have on my mind is this paper that we had to write for a class recently. It was 3000 words about Time. It sounds vague, it was vague. But it kind of got me thinking about how time really affects us, and seeing as I would've probably written way more than I need to if I really got into it I didn't explore some of the stuff I would have liked to. But one thought really popped into my head, if you really look into it time is nothing, it is only what we make it. For instance, take a look at all the different calendars there are. They are all fabrications of what each society believes time is. One year in China is a different one that say in America. That's not to say the entire world isn't on the same schedule though, because it is, and I'm not entirely sure how that came about, just a wide acceptance of some kind of standard I'm assuming. But if you take a little time to explore what it might be like if absolutely no one invented a calendar you might be surprised at what all wouldn't take place. First of all we would have no type of scheduling whatsoever, therefore we couldn't work, so we wouldn't have any kind of currency. No currency means no economy, so we would be bartering goods. Travel would also be affected. In fact, we would probably have to walk everywhere. Most everything we have would be gone. It seems as though time works as the base for everything else to function. Take this scenario. You're late for your haircut. This means that your appointment is behind, which pushes back the one behind you a little more, and the gap gets increasingly bigger, imagine if that went on for infinity, that last person, theoretically of course, would never be able to get a haircut, therefore being the most epic hippie ever. Unfortunately a lot of what I am thinking is hard to express through written word, and it's just too long, but I feel like I could talk about this idea for hours. I would probably get frustrated eventually because I would just not find any answers, but sometimes not finding answers is more gratifying in that you grow your thought process a little more. Regardless, that's the tangent I'm on tonight, if you've got anything to add don't hesitate to do so.