Wednesday, February 26, 2003
a good friend of mine said something really peculiar the other day. it intrigued my curiosity and boggled my mind. and therefore, it is the topic of the hour: "time is running out".
we have a deadline for a lot of things. anything from homework to lunch time, there's always a certain point of inflection that changes the way one thinks, acts, does. but does time itself run out? does it actually give us an ending? i see it as us human beings setting a limit on something consistent and unyielding; therefore, in the end, we lose.
it is a restriction we put on time that was never there before. what's so unfair about this is that although we have no intention of contorting time's ways, we have no other choice. we need deadlines in order to attain something. it's true. if my math homework wasn't due on friday, i'd put it off an infinite amount of years. i'd probably not even attempt to do it. same goes on a larger scale. i probably wouldn't say the things i say.
generally, most of us don't even know the concept of time. i sit in front of my computer now, watching the minutes tick away, not knowing the importance of them. the total amount of my wasted time is probably fathomless. i don't want to count the hours, the days, the weeks; it makes me want to bring it all back. and to many, this remorse is a slap in the face. it's a lesson taught by time: and there's no better teacher.
and ultimately, we go back to the central statement from my friend. does time run out? probably not. but we let it.
don't ever take anything for granted.
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