Rants and Complaints | Entry 1: Time

Time is everyone's enemy and friend. It is the guide and it is precious. So the saying goes, time is gold. And it certainly is precious. Time is the most valuable human resources and yet, it is non renewable. Meaning, it cannot be taken back and it cannot be created. Time passes and waits for none. And before you know it, time can leave you nothing but regret.

To most people, time directs their very lives. Schedules here and schedules there alert them to do tasks and in a sense, we have become servants of the ultimate dictator- time.

Image: Watches: Time's Soldiers (image found from google)

Shown above, these watches served as time's ever vigilant soldiers- always watching and guarding the harmonious bend of time to remind people that they are all chained by society's ruling and prohibited from any self-expression, if there is at all.

However, my main complain for today, is not about how society dictates strictness and rigidness of rules, but how time can be inconvenient at times. Sometimes, time is a great friend, slowing down when the time's right, when you're enjoying and rapidly paces by when boredom struck.

But there are also times when time is your greatest enemy. Sometimes, you're racing with it, trying to outlast time to hand in reports, projects, homework and assignments on time. But there are other times when, due to it moving so slow, you'll have to struggle with all your might to stay active, stay alert and simply ask yourself "When will this ever end?".

This prime example of how time can be quite annoying is an epitome of how time dictates us. It is there to remind us that it is still "lord" over us. It is there to constantly remind us that we are under its constraints and we are servants forced to obey it and limit ourselves to it because we have no other choice.

And that's why sometimes, I just hope that we don't have any concept of times at all. Then all the impatience, law suits, failed subjects due to tardiness, not meeting the deadlines and all will not burden us down. But then again, the balance of nature would have been disturbed if this happens. Or will it not? Is time really obsolete and unnecessary? Is our concept of time unnatural?

Perhaps I am here to complain and whine. But this got me into thinking. If time doesn't exist, how will humanity develop? Will we still develop the same social structures as we have? Or will we enter a totally different era not driven by time?