From time to time, I like to find out what time it really is. So what is time anyway? Is it the hours in a day, or is it the future, hiding in a dark and secluded corner? Is it there to trip us up, or is it hiding merely to trick us!? Actually, the time right now is 12:10 a.m. and I’m sitting at my desk wondering what time really means.
Time varies from person to person and from profession to profession. To learn the importance of time, ask a swimmer the importance of a millisecond, a formula 1 driver a second, a student for a few more minutes, and an old man the years that have gone by. So what actually does time mean? It seems that I’ve returned exactly to where I started, the beginning of it all. Trusting my watch to tell me the truth doesn’t obviously work, because I am getting older as the minutes tick by and there is really nothing I can do about it. This is where I started thinking, can I stop or freeze time?
You know like in movies, to find a formula to keep me young forever, thereby challenging the meaning of time. But then, would that mean having to live in a “de’ja vu” like situation over and over again, while the people around me get older? Wouldn’t that mean that in the end, I would be left alone? Now was that what I was initially after? Sigh... Looking at the subject critically, artificial time is actually not what it seems to be. So, it would actually be safer to go by the motto “time flies when you are having fun or crushes you when your not”. After a lot of contemplation, I realized this was not a thing to be solved through the rational thought process. Maybe it was lying in the truth of “asking a barmen for a scream”! (wink wink)
Sibel Muradođlu (ELIT/III)
