Our Mind? Our Time?
Most humans think of the function of time as the thing that we never seem to have enough of. We have too much work, too many expectations, and never enough time. Most of us think of the flow of time, only in a sense of counting forward, minute after minute; completely linear. In Egyptian culture, resulting from the sadness felt by Isis due to the death of Osiris, Isis cried, and her tears flooded the Nile River, which causes it’s periodic rise and fall. Egyptians used this rise and fall of the Nile to create a calendar for agricultural purposes of planting and harvesting crops. In a historical sense, time as we know it was created. If we were to study such things as:
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There would be an endless amount of sources from which we would find information about how time has influenced our lives. This also means that we would have plenty of material to study in an attempt to try and better understand how time should be perceived. Is time linear and on a direct course forward? Is it true that we only have this very moment that we are living, now? Is it possible for the past, present, and future to exist simultaneously? If we never looked at a clock again, or based another event around an hour or date would time still have any meaning in our life?
The truth is, no-one can really tell us how the function of time occurs. Time could be simply an idea constructed from the mind of man; only existing because we allow it to exist by acknowledging its presence, the very presence that we have given it. Personally, I believe that time can be considered in the same aspects of the space in which we live. It is all around us, all of the time. There is no space, void of time, just as there are no spaces full of time. It just is. It is our perception of the information that we receive that makes room for such a concept to exist at all. It is a space that allows for stress and desire. It can interfere with the way we think and process information. The concept of time has been a cause for negative human emotion and action from the very first time it was realized that we were limited by a force with such an amount of power and control. Without even realizing it; we have become slaves to it. We worship it. We base our entire lives around its ideas. Some of you may disagree as you check your schedule to see when your next appointment or meeting will be, or look at the TV Guide to find out what time your television show comes on so you can set yourself a reminder to set it up to record. Either way, my opinion of this powerful idea is still without a proper amount of information. It will be a topic of future study and research for me, and now that you have stopped to consider the complexity of the concept of time; it may seem a little bit more interesting to you, also.
