You've got time

Running parallel to the theme of 'growing up' in my last post, comes the theme of time. Time moves on, we grow, everything is constantly changing around us with time. 

A contrast that could be considered here is life vs death, death is inevitable in life and as time goes on it gets closer...(how morbid!); our biological clocks are literally ticking away.

Change is a by-product of time. We have physical changes to our bodies, evolution, growth and decay in plants and animals, climate, our economy. 

I've read somewhere that time was a human invention, a way of categorizing change in our lives.

One of my favourite quotes is one by Dr. Seuss: 'How did it get so late so soon?' which I think describes most days for me! 

I will have set out with the greatest of intentions but time goes so quickly and my procrastination levels are so high that the day is over and I have achieved very little.

Although, similarities could be shown within any career: if you are in a monotonous job, your daily achievements could also be very low and your day unfulfilled apart from the promise of cash for your hours.  

This then made me think if death is inevitable, what are we really living for, is it getting the cash from these jobs so that we can have a few holidays a year? Or if we go really deep into it, do we discuss the meaning of life?! When I first considered life vs death I felt this was more a literal term; change in the physical sense, but it could be argued that we aren't really living anyway...

Literal time is shown in clocks, hourglasses and we even use the sun to tell the time. We have certain things to do at hours in the day; we wake up in the morning and sleep in the evening. Different parts of the world are ahead or behind in time and we fly through time zones to reach a destination. 

We know things from the past; past monarchs, inventors, deaths, discoveries, animals and disasters due to records and the trails they've left behind but we know nothing about the future...nothing is certain. 

Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, the list is endless but we can't find the time to fit everything in.

I like the below quote too, as it refers to time as a value. Although it is an inanimate object, it spoken about as tangible and compared to us using it as money.

Time is always used as a metaphor. Time is money. Time is a healer. Time is a gift. There's so many angles to go down! 

Let's hope I have the time to look at everything!