Time is a topic

Time is a topic which comes up often these days in our stressed out society, some seem to have too much of it, others say they don’t have enough. In my line of business there is a lot of mention of part time, full time, work from home, to get more time for yourself, family and friends and so forth. So I started thinking of what does time really mean. Certainly, time is valued differently by each individual, depending on their circumstances, but I was still wanting to know – what does time really mean –why don’t we have a common view on what time really is.

To begin with I think time is something we have because we have been granted life, so far so good, and is something to be very thankful for, at least I am! But, yes the “but” was still not answered in my mind, what is it and how should we make use or not of it, and so I Googled around a bit, because I had the “time” to do so.

WIKI says: Time is an essential part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify the motions of objects.

www.timephysics.com says time is: an emergent concept. There is an underlying process of motion and forces from which time emerges, however what we perceive as time is mostly an illusion.

You can imagine my thirst for getting to know what time is was not satisfied by the above! So I continued my search and came across:

An interview with scientist Sean Carroll who was asked: Can you explain your theory of time in layman’s terms? Sean replied: I’m trying to understand how time works. And that’s a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it. A lot of them go back to Einstein and space time and how we measure time using clocks.

But the particular aspect of time that I’m interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don’t remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can’t turn an omelet into an egg.

… the below, though not written by me initially, pinpoints the important essentials of time as I see it.

“Imagine there is a bank that deposits 86 400 dollars into your bank account every morning

Nothing’s wrong, the deposits are legitimate and correctly made by an enormously rich beneficiary. But the bank doesn’t transfer the money from one day to another. Every night the money which you haven’t used that day are removed from your account. What would you do under such circumstances?

Of course you would use all the money put in your account daily, day after day wouldn’t you. The great thing is that we all have such an account! But it is not money that is put into that account – the name of the account is TIME.

Every day you get 86 400 seconds. Every night, all the time you haven’t used is removed forever. Nothing is transferred and you can’t use it in advance. Every day a new account is started on your behalf.

Every night unused time disappears. If you don’t use today’s deposit, the only one to blame is you yourself. There is no way back. You can’t overdraft your account! You have to live in the “present” and use today’s deposit. Invest your time as wisely as you can so you gain the most in return in regard to health, happiness, success, wealth and wisdom.

To be able to understand the value of a YEAR – ask a student who missed their exams

To be able to understand the value of a MONTH, ask a pregnant woman who is overdue

To understand the value of a WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly magazine

To understand the value of an HOUR, ask the newly in love who are waiting to meet again

To be able to understand the value of a MINUTE, ask the man who missed his flight

To be able to understand the value of a SECOND, ask a person who just avoided having a terrible car accident

To be able to understand the value of a MILLISECOND, ask a person who made it to second place at the Olympics.

Value every moment, because time doesn’t wait for anyone.

Yesterday is history.

Tomorrow is a mystery

Today is a gift”

So take action to reclaim your time because as long as you sit on the fence with time passing, you are missing the opportunity to make things different for yourself.

What are you doing right now to reclaim your time?