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Time illusion or reality
The title I choose for this excerpt is because time has been a mystery ever since we have known time. Several scholars and scientists have said numerous things about time.
" Time is money." – Benjamin Franklin
"Lost time is never found again. " – Benjamin Franklin
"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. " – William Shakespeare
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." – Theophrastus
" Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back."
........Harvey Mackay
"Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death."
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Since the start of civilization humans have used natural resources like the occurrences of darkness and light, position and movement of the moon in the sky to keep track of time, this let the invention of seasons, It was only 30,000 years ago when humans first started using sundial ( using mountain and tree shadows at first), water clocks to measure time,
The division into 60 originated from the ancient Babylonians (1900 b.c.e.–1650 b.c.e.), who attributed mystical significance to multiples of 12, and especially to the multiple of 12 times 5, which equals 60. The Babylonians divided the portion that was lit by the Sun into 12 parts, and the dark interval into 12 more, yielding 24 divisions now called hours, although it is not known but we have started to use analogue watched some 400 years ago and our recent discoveries made is develop the atomic watch that could measure time to the billionth of a second is only somewhat 50 years old.
Multiple advancements and research by some great scholars like Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton let to the development of the "Theory of Relativity " that even said that time is a dimension and everything is relative to this fourth mysterious dimension. We are still moving further with research on time cause there are several mysterious lurking in the universe about how the could be bent to move between future , present and past.
Equivocating all about time there is still one fact that several people are trying to unveil about this "mysterious being" called time ( maybe I went too far and called it a being), is that should time really matter, although it is essential but what about the stories of people who have broken free from shackles of time. Those "ageless beings" do they exist, cause if they do we have not understood time, maybe time is really a being that keeps reminding us of its passage and drains us of our life energy just like some scholars quoting 'time' to be a 'thief' of all we love and care . Our bodies some say has our own clock and there are some who have control over it.
"Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings." ........John Updike
In the ancient Hindu mythology "Aatma" has been said to be immortal , an entity that never dies, what if that is true and we can find a way out to win over our consciousness one day and live without this mortal body remembering all that we do .
Mythology talks about time as ageless that it existed even when there was nothing and would still exist even all that we know ceases to exist.
There is still a lot to be said and discussed about time. Maybe together we will be able to unravel it's mystery or maybe not, cause even when I am writing this is flowing at its own pace and we are losing that part of it causing it to look more mysterious. Keeping it's secret to oneself it goes on and on and on........
Thanks for reading
#Sagar
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#excerpt
Time illusion or reality
The title I choose for this excerpt is because time has been a mystery ever since we have known time. Several scholars and scientists have said numerous things about time.
" Time is money." – Benjamin Franklin
"Lost time is never found again. " – Benjamin Franklin
"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. " – William Shakespeare
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." – Theophrastus
" Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back."
........Harvey Mackay
"Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death."
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Since the start of civilization humans have used natural resources like the occurrences of darkness and light, position and movement of the moon in the sky to keep track of time, this let the invention of seasons, It was only 30,000 years ago when humans first started using sundial ( using mountain and tree shadows at first), water clocks to measure time,
The division into 60 originated from the ancient Babylonians (1900 b.c.e.–1650 b.c.e.), who attributed mystical significance to multiples of 12, and especially to the multiple of 12 times 5, which equals 60. The Babylonians divided the portion that was lit by the Sun into 12 parts, and the dark interval into 12 more, yielding 24 divisions now called hours, although it is not known but we have started to use analogue watched some 400 years ago and our recent discoveries made is develop the atomic watch that could measure time to the billionth of a second is only somewhat 50 years old.
Multiple advancements and research by some great scholars like Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton let to the development of the "Theory of Relativity " that even said that time is a dimension and everything is relative to this fourth mysterious dimension. We are still moving further with research on time cause there are several mysterious lurking in the universe about how the could be bent to move between future , present and past.
Equivocating all about time there is still one fact that several people are trying to unveil about this "mysterious being" called time ( maybe I went too far and called it a being), is that should time really matter, although it is essential but what about the stories of people who have broken free from shackles of time. Those "ageless beings" do they exist, cause if they do we have not understood time, maybe time is really a being that keeps reminding us of its passage and drains us of our life energy just like some scholars quoting 'time' to be a 'thief' of all we love and care . Our bodies some say has our own clock and there are some who have control over it.
"Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings." ........John Updike
In the ancient Hindu mythology "Aatma" has been said to be immortal , an entity that never dies, what if that is true and we can find a way out to win over our consciousness one day and live without this mortal body remembering all that we do .
Mythology talks about time as ageless that it existed even when there was nothing and would still exist even all that we know ceases to exist.
There is still a lot to be said and discussed about time. Maybe together we will be able to unravel it's mystery or maybe not, cause even when I am writing this is flowing at its own pace and we are losing that part of it causing it to look more mysterious. Keeping it's secret to oneself it goes on and on and on........
Thanks for reading
#Sagar
#review
#excerpt
Steven loved a girl, but the girl did not. Steven knew this. Steven wanted to stop generating this enormous feelings for her. So, Steven decided to go away from her life, never to return back. But on her birthday, he could not resist wishing her, so he came back to wish her. He wished. But the girl responded silence.
He was already broken, and now he was pulverised into dust. He wept into a pillow till his eyes got swollen to the extent that no more tears could pass through the bulged skin around the eyes. He coughed, he gagged several times. After a while he looked into a mirror but to his surprise there was no reflection of his image appeared on the mirror.
He had turned into nothing..
All distressed and destroyed, he went out in open, and he looked up towards the sky and searched as if someone is up there, who was witnessing his plight. He gazed up for a while and then he covered his swollen eyes with his palms. And sat on his folded knees, he leaned forward to rest his face onto his knees now his palms were between his face and the knee. And he was sitting in the middle of his terrace.
There was a complete silence in his pausture, there was no apparent movement in his body for quite some time. He was trying to hold his breath, probably trying to suffocate himself to death. But little did he know, reflexes of his body kicked in and he had to exhale violently. It was so violent as if a volcano had erupted and with it came out the lava of anxiety, hatred, anger and embarrassment. At this very moment, for just few seconds, he had this moment of clarity.
His feelings were powerful and so were his emotions. He was having this intense emotions for the first time and he could not handle them well. And this had made him feel that miserable.
He brought a little change in his perpective now, what actually happened was, he faced a rejection. The girl did not have those emotions and feelings. So, she did not respond the way he wanted. Though, It would have been surreal if she had. He sighed with a chuckle.
He had reasoned and had resolved.
He looked up again, and thanked someone up there and prayed for wellness and happiness for her.
With this new insight a joy that had blossomed in his heart, warmed up his whole body. He started feeling much lighter from that moment. He rushed into his room and stood before the mirror. In mirror appeared a bigger and a better man than what he had seen last, before he decided to come back and wish this girl birthday.
Steven decided to let her live in her own happy world and let this story to rest on a warm and cozy full stop.
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#excerpt
#epiphanyofsteve
He was already broken, and now he was pulverised into dust. He wept into a pillow till his eyes got swollen to the extent that no more tears could pass through the bulged skin around the eyes. He coughed, he gagged several times. After a while he looked into a mirror but to his surprise there was no reflection of his image appeared on the mirror.
He had turned into nothing..
All distressed and destroyed, he went out in open, and he looked up towards the sky and searched as if someone is up there, who was witnessing his plight. He gazed up for a while and then he covered his swollen eyes with his palms. And sat on his folded knees, he leaned forward to rest his face onto his knees now his palms were between his face and the knee. And he was sitting in the middle of his terrace.
There was a complete silence in his pausture, there was no apparent movement in his body for quite some time. He was trying to hold his breath, probably trying to suffocate himself to death. But little did he know, reflexes of his body kicked in and he had to exhale violently. It was so violent as if a volcano had erupted and with it came out the lava of anxiety, hatred, anger and embarrassment. At this very moment, for just few seconds, he had this moment of clarity.
His feelings were powerful and so were his emotions. He was having this intense emotions for the first time and he could not handle them well. And this had made him feel that miserable.
He brought a little change in his perpective now, what actually happened was, he faced a rejection. The girl did not have those emotions and feelings. So, she did not respond the way he wanted. Though, It would have been surreal if she had. He sighed with a chuckle.
He had reasoned and had resolved.
He looked up again, and thanked someone up there and prayed for wellness and happiness for her.
With this new insight a joy that had blossomed in his heart, warmed up his whole body. He started feeling much lighter from that moment. He rushed into his room and stood before the mirror. In mirror appeared a bigger and a better man than what he had seen last, before he decided to come back and wish this girl birthday.
Steven decided to let her live in her own happy world and let this story to rest on a warm and cozy full stop.
#review
#khaahk
#excerpt
#epiphanyofsteve