Philosophy of Time

Time is not real. I know, you can reach out and touch a clock, and actually feel the gears move and the hands tick, but that isn’t time. The clock is just a steady measure of movement. The hands turn at the same rate, every hour of every day. We use this to measure how many things we get done, in the time it takes for those hands to move a certain distance.

That means that time itself doesn’t really exist. It is just the consequence of living in a universe where things happen. Luckily, this doesn’t mean that we really have to adjust our thinking. We evolved to see time as real, because this gives us a perception of the world which is close enough for almost any activity humans could undertake in the past few thousand years. It is only with the development of deeper quantum mechanics, relativity theory, and other scientific disciplines that we have had to start re-thinking time.

One consequence of living in a world where time is so important is that we are constantly pushed to keep moving. Time may be the greatest efficiency tool ever invented, because it makes people work harder, do more, be better, and grow in order to accomplish more with our time. Clocks are all around us, whipping us, making us move.

The other half of this equation is that time brings change. All things change as time marches on, and as such we live in an ever evolving flux. Since this is a constant built into the system, most humans react by trying to hold on to things, trying to keep things the same, and familiar. This puts us at odds with the very nature of the universe, and can cause some emotional and functional conflicts throughout our lives. However this is also what gives life some of its greatest meaning, and can also lead people to triumphant struggles.

Time is the bane of our existence, even though it doesn’t exist itself. On the other hand without it, nothing would ever happen. It is this sweet misery that gives our lives such delicious appeal and makes them worth living.

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