Time

I’m taking my own advice. I’m cleaning out boxes of stuff preparing to go back to school, and came across something from my Conceptual Physics 205 class a while ago. I have to share it with you.

Our professor was Croatian, and sometimes things smacked into the language barrier and passed out. I think this assignment might have been one. It was “Whatsa Time?” roughly translated after minutes of class discussion as “What is Time?” Without further ado, I present “Time” by Branson Sparks.

     First and foremost, time is a scarce resource. There’s never enough of it, and everyone always wants more. It can’t be paused, fast forwarded, or rewound. Einstein once explained relativity by giving a simple example: when you’re sitting on a hot stove for a few seconds, it feels like hours; when you’re sitting with a pretty girl for hours, it feels like a few seconds. It is also said that as one ages, time seems to go faster–a rather cruel twist of fate. This brings up an important issue: the passing of time versus the perception of the passing of time. Though time marches by with the swing of the pendulum and the vibrations of Cesium 133 atoms in the atomic clock, there are occasions when it seems to drag by slowly and with painstaking tediousness. At other times, it flies by. Regardless, the common theme, at least among most college and working age individuals is that there don’t seem to be enough hours in the day. However, this is a fallacy, because if days by some strange action became longer, the amount of stuff that needs to be done in a day would simply increase to fit the amount of time allotted to it. Though morbid, everyone on the Earth is a timer counting down. We all will eventually die. Therefore, we must use the time that we have wisely and budget it carefully, because however much time you have, it’s never enough. It’s a scarce resource and must be dealt with accordingly. Actually, it is the most valuable asset in the world-more precious than diamonds, gold, or silver. Your time is yours to do with it what you will, so choose wisely.

Just a little nugget of wisdom from The BS-Files for you.