Do You Believe in Time?

Time can be measured in many different ways, not only with clocks and calendars. Thus time, particularly elapsed time have several measures, many of which can be subjective and mattering only to one person or a tiny group of them. These measures can also pertain only a given situation, activity, person, etc. I have one of these subjective, particular time measurers too, for my blogging. Basically, it's Dragonfly-cr. When she has posted twice or more since my last post, it means that it has already taken me too long to post. Not like it would really-really matter how often or not do I post, but still.

Time also takes relevance and gets different ways of measure at the office. The time before lunch, the time after lunch and before busting the joint. The time until the meeting, the time until every presentation has been shown. The time it takes the coffee to be ready, the time before the deadline, the time the printer takes to be done with your work. The time it takes the Express to deliever you your bagel with chives cream cheese and two cokes. The time it takes you to reach the monthly goal.

Eventually your mind seems to elapse dissove and you wonder whether time is real and whether it really does exist, even though you live in it.

Basically you don't see time, you don't smell it, don't taste it, don't hear it, don't feel it. You can't really say either that you experice it's effect on things. People don't get old because of time, but get old because of biological questions. Time doesn't make plants grow or cars rust. Time doesn't push the Earth around the Sun, nor move the moon around the planet. These all happen for other reasons, all of them studied by now, researched, named, proved, typified and gathered into "laws". However time itself, inspite of being measured in thousand and thousand of times, can't be grasped.

Time can also gets feared, blamed, avoided, spent, wasted, used up productively, taken advantage of, cherished, remembered, forgoten, stolen, given, taken, rearranged, shared, combined, sought, found... and it is said that time is gold. But is time gold? For if it is, gold should also be time, and it is not. So again, what and where is this "time" we do so many things with?

Basically people live "in" time, never questioning it, not for a split of it doubting it's existence even though nobody can prove it, nor can any one point at it. Nobody pulls a war over it, and there are no achronos, monochronos, polichronos people (though I do believe we are all basically polichronos).

If time is so important, and God too is so important, I wonder why can't God (God, not Religion) be accepted just the same.