Time Has Come Today: Not the Chamber’s Brothers Edition

Time. Einstein was right.

I just brushed my teeth. Only an instant ago I was brushing my teeth, but that was actually 12 hours ago. Time is not linear, but excruciatingly exponential. Nothing has ever been more true or painfully obvious.

As we age, time accelerates rapidly. When we are 4 years old, 2 years is half of our life. When we are 75, 2 years are only 2% of our life, a huge difference.
This reality, or relativity, can be terrifying. Time is a runaway freight train without any brakes, a historical inevitability for all life-forms who have ever had the honor of inhabiting this planet.

In my mind, I moved to Colorado only briefly ago, but it has been over 16 years now, and I have lived here longer than I have lived anywhere else. To muse or fret about making the most of your days is useless, as this also is pretty much out of our control.

The acceleration of time is also out of control, as is the misguided, but understandable attempts of humans to try to make the most of what time we have. This is just another impossible and unobtainable goal of those of us who grow hopelessly older, sicker, and more useless.

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There is no today if you are referring to the Present. There is only the Past and the Future. What? You say? What is time? We can’t visit either the past or the future, as we are trapped into the present…Or are we?

The present cannot be captured, even with our magnificent brains. Every micro-second of the present is galloping away from us at unstoppable and unimaginable speeds that cannot be calculated. Every GooglePlex of a microsecond of our existence can be broken down into further parts to approach the limit of Zero.

Time cannot be captured in a bottle, as it is always moving one step ahead of even the calculations of our wildest theories or dreams. Therefore, whither are we drifting?