What does time mean to you?

Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed

Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
Location
Central NY
Of course there are past, present and future tenses, but what does time mean to you? Time reflects learned lessons, dues paid, wisdom gained and how I apply these in my daily life. It is said people are given everything they need in life to what ends depends on the decisions we make.

I don’t believe in screw ups, that said, everyone has his/her role to play in life. There are no wrong choices, every moment lived is exactly as it should be. Life gives us a wonderful opportunity to learn and gain the things needed specifically tailored to each individual. How cool is that?
 

Sums it up for me:
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I don't philosophize much on the element of 'time'
It makes me too conscious of time, when I can be thinking about what's happened, happening, gonna happen

Some famous guy wrote something like this;

'Time just keeps things from happening all at once'

I do like that

I also like happenings
 

As to Mr. Ed's comment about " screw ups". I think if you asked most people, they would say they didn't do anything wrong. "Okay, maybe I didn't have to kill that dude, but I didn't do anything wrong." I believe we see our intentions as being just, and the logical answers to events. We aren't "bad' people. That mindset ignores the fact that others have "good" intensions, which are diametrically opposed to our good intentions.

As far as 'time" is concerned, I've always been fascinated by time. I know this is weird, but "now" is such a tiny thing. By the time you read that, it was in the past. While I don't even begin to understand it, I think time and space, per Einstein, is expanding or going forward, and somehow time is the rate at which stuff happens. I really don't believe we have any true idea of the complexities that make up "time".
 
Mr. Ed said:
I don’t believe in screw ups . . . There are no wrong choices, every moment lived is exactly as it should be.
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Who defines how things "should be?"

Don't you think someone "screwed up" when a bridge collapses because it was not built to specifications or wasn't maintained properly? In what universe is that exactly as it should be?

Is becoming a junkie not a "wrong choice?" Is committing a mass murder a good choice?
 
To me time is the most available resource available to me. Unfortunately even with that attitude I still find myself wasting it more than I want to. Wasting it to me is not necessarily working towards a specific goal with the way I spend it, but instead letting it slip by doing things that I'm not really enjoying that much or is not adding something to my life either immediately or setting up for something adding to my life in the future.
 
Mr. Ed said:
I don’t believe in screw ups, that said, everyone has his/her role to play in life. There are no wrong choices, every moment lived is exactly as it should be.
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And here I thought us bipeds had it up on the quads
Thought we had a power
A power of choice

I'm gonna pass this enlightening info on to the wonderful folks rioting in Portland, living exactly as they should
....riiiight before the Feds come in and do exactly as they should
 
In some ways I feel ancient and in some ways I've just begun. In the ways I've just begun, I'm eager to know what is coming next. In the ways I'm feeling ancient, in this present moment in time, I am satisfied.
 
One really comforting aspect of time is the moment we are in right now. If I can remind myself that whatever I am worried or concerned about is not in this very moment, and wasting this very moment by trying to live in some other moment, is wasting my life instead of living it. That realization, when I can remember to remind myself of that simple fact, has done more for my peace of mind than anything else.

Then, there was one among many cliched cute statements in the 1970s: Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday, now you know why.

Another thing I have read in several places is that most of the things we worry about, never come to pass.

So, really, it seems to me that the only thing we can readily do anything about is what is happening right now, and most of the time the only thing we can control is our reaction to that event.

Tony
 
Ever experienced the Oddball Effect?
The so-called “oddball effect” occurs when the brain experiences something unusual or out of the normal run of events
In this case, the brain pays special attention and spends more time processing the event, recording as much information as possible on the novel circumstances, which can lead to a feeling that time has slowed down
 
tbeltrans said:
One really comforting aspect of time is the moment we are in right now. If I can remind myself that whatever I am worried or concerned about is not in this very moment, and wasting this very moment by trying to live in some other moment, is wasting my life instead of living it. That realization, when I can remember to remind myself of that simple fact, has done more for my peace of mind than anything else.

Then, there was one among many cliched cute statements in the 1970s: Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday, now you know why.

Another thing I have read in several places is that most of the things we worry about, never come to pass.

So, really, it seems to me that the only thing we can readily do anything about is what is happening right now, and most of the time the only thing we can control is our reaction to that event.

Tony
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I agree. Another way to put it is, don't borrow tomorrow.
 
peramangkelder said:
Ever experienced the Oddball Effect?
The so-called “oddball effect” occurs when the brain experiences something unusual or out of the normal run of events
In this case, the brain pays special attention and spends more time processing the event, recording as much information as possible on the novel circumstances, which can lead to a feeling that time has slowed down
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I never thought of it that way.
 
As I near retiring at end of this year after right 43 year of working the oilpatch.... this cartoon sums it up better than most any attempt thru writing can illustrate......

I am jealous for each moment with ms gamboolgal, and will be so glad to be able to devote myself to harassing her full time

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fuzzybuddy said:
As to Mr. Ed's comment about " screw ups". I think if you asked most people, they would say they didn't do anything wrong. "Okay, maybe I didn't have to kill that dude, but I didn't do anything wrong." I believe we see our intentions as being just, and the logical answers to events. We aren't "bad' people. That mindset ignores the fact that others have "good" intensions, which are diametrically opposed to our good intentions.

As far as 'time" is concerned, I've always been fascinated by time. I know this is weird, but "now" is such a tiny thing. By the time you read that, it was in the past. While I don't even begin to understand it, I think time and space, per Einstein, is expanding or going forward, and somehow time is the rate at which stuff happens. I really don't believe we have any true idea of the complexities that make up "time".
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Point taken at some point in life everyone screws up or should have behaved acted differently. Yes I’ve screwed up but believe me it was not fault
 
raybar said:
Who defines how things "should be?"

Don't you think someone "screwed up" when a bridge collapses because it was not built to specifications or wasn't maintained properly? In what universe is that exactly as it should be?

Is becoming a junkie not a "wrong choice?" Is committing a mass murder a good choice?
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The things are by any definition outside of the things that are not is as it should be
 
Keesha said:
Absolutely am also.
For myself time only exists in this dimension so we humans can experience our own mortality. In other dimensions time doesn’t exist.
( only my opinion )
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When I was younger I frittered and wasted many hours in an offhand way and would later stress out about it. Now I have no regrets for those times of frittering in my youth or when I do now.
 
Time is something I never seem to have enough of because I waste so much of it being busy doing things that don't really have to get done at the moment . Reflecting on the past and how I could have done better is another time waster yet I continue to do it.
I try to live in the moment but its very hard to do.
 

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