Time
I was totally startled to learn I had not posted to ExodustoEgypt for an entire month. I would have guessed it was two weeks at most. But in a way, it makes sense. I have always considered time a strange and mysterious thing. Some philosophers and scientists ponder why it even exists and what it really is. One ancient Greek philosopher named Parmenides, for instance, went so far as to deny time altogether. Nothing, he said, changed, therefore there was no time. And maybe he's at least half right, because if everything stopped changing, wouldn't time then cease?
My recent time-warp grants, perhaps, scant insight into these questions, though it certainly does link up with other experiences everyone has had: how when you're very busy—or having so much fun—time seems to flow much faster, while whenever things are dull or painful time runs down to a creep, as if it were almost freezing solid. But this is, usually, how things in the present seem. Look at the past, and everything feels as if it flew by on a rocket. Could it really be I graduated from High School nearly 18 years ago? Time past is very swift, time present varies from swift to slow, while time future seems, in looking forward to it, so long and slow—until it too has passed, and once more you are changed.
Right now it seems like it will be forever until we get to be back home. But pretty soon we will be, and then we'll say, where did the time all go? Then I'll turn 37.
My recent time-warp grants, perhaps, scant insight into these questions, though it certainly does link up with other experiences everyone has had: how when you're very busy—or having so much fun—time seems to flow much faster, while whenever things are dull or painful time runs down to a creep, as if it were almost freezing solid. But this is, usually, how things in the present seem. Look at the past, and everything feels as if it flew by on a rocket. Could it really be I graduated from High School nearly 18 years ago? Time past is very swift, time present varies from swift to slow, while time future seems, in looking forward to it, so long and slow—until it too has passed, and once more you are changed.
Right now it seems like it will be forever until we get to be back home. But pretty soon we will be, and then we'll say, where did the time all go? Then I'll turn 37.
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