“Time watch!”
Iwas waking up from a richly deserved nap in my “Comfy Chair!” I began to wonder how long I had napped and what time it was when I woke up. I began contemplating time!
Time has been parsed down to microseconds on an atomic clock located in Boulder, Colorado. It sends out a signal that atomic clocks can pick up on it to know precisely what time it is.
Microseconds, nanoseconds, is this how we are to live our lives? Early in our development as a species, there were two times to deal with; nighttime and daytime!
The sun rising in the east, directly overhead, and setting in the west was the only timepiece you needed.
When daylight first began, you would eat something and then spend the rest of the time securing food for the coming night’s darkness and the next day’s sunshine!
During the day, I often look at my watch to see what time it is. Knowing the time is helpful if you have an appointment and need to be somewhere at a specific time.
I look at my watch even on days when I have no appointments or meetings. It’s a habit, I guess.
We look at the time to determine how old we are and how fresh our food is when we can do different things in our society.
Time is a controlling factor in our lives. It tells us when to go to bed and when to get up in the morning.
When I retired, I could throw out my watches and not pay that close attention to time.
That has yet to happen; I have many things controlled by the clock and time. What time to be at church, what time to be at an appointment, meeting, lunch with friends, the list is endless.
There is a time to be at work and end the workday for the working population. There is time to have two breaks a day and time to have lunch.
In studies, people start losing productivity 15 minutes before break because they are thinking about taking a break, 15 minutes for the break, and 15 minutes thinking about how much they enjoyed their break.
Lunch and end of the workday have similar time productivity losses, but it is in half-hour increments.
When it comes to holidays, how many days do you think about and anticipate Thanksgiving? Then enjoying Thanksgiving, and then thinking about you enjoyed Thanksgiving! Then there is Christmas, Easter, Fourth of July, on and on.
What if time does not truly exist? What if it is an illusion? What if time, past, present, and future all exist simultaneously?
What if time is concurrent and divided at the same time? Just thinking about this makes my head spin!
Moving forward, I plan to work with the time and use watches, phones, and anything that can let me know what time it is, for days I have something planned.
For days I don’t have something planned, I’m going to leave my watch on my dresser and just live my life based on the sun’s position in the sky!
My dogs, of course, do not need a watch. They do not follow daylight savings time. Their ability to know when it’s time to eat breakfast or dinner is uncanny. I wonder if they follow the sun.
“ Remember, every day is a gift! Some are just a little more fun to open than others.” – © Joel M. Vernier 11/ 12/ 2022 Author of: “ The Guinea Pig In The Freezer.” joelmvernier@ aol. com.