A Minute Of Your Time?

Can you give me a minute of your time? Of course not, you cannot save, give away, receive or spend time; it is just a figure of speech. And yet, there is an abundance of it in the universe, which is defined qualitatively and quantitatively by time, space and matter.

Of all the things in the universe, time is the single item that science finds hardest to explain and all we can do is to do as much as we can as it relentlessly walks on; or we can sit idle, simply watch it goes by. It waits for no one.

Time compares well with the three stages of water.

The past is frozen solid; it starts now and stretches back to the beginning; whenever that was. There is nothing we can do to change it. Yes, we can correct the effects of the mistakes we made yesterday but we cannot undo them. What is done is done. An apology does not undo your previous action; it only admits to making a mistake. We cannot save a position and restore to it when things work out wrong.

The future is hidden; an impenetrable steam vapor that nobody can see through. Some people claim that they can but that is a topic on its own. It starts now and stretches forward into eternity.

The present, also known as ‘now’, is a fleeting moment in time between the future and the past when the steam vapor of the future condenses into water before it instantly freezes into the solid ice masses of the past. It is strange that the only component of time that we have direct control over, last for just a moment. Yet it determines the past which shapes the future.

To those who believe that time is the best teacher or that time is on their side, I have bad news. Time will kill all his patrons and will eventually destroy everything. Time is just something that prevents everything from happening at once; something to stretch the process of his destruction.


May you all have a good time!