Time
What is the most critical question that human beings have asked themselves from the beginning of time?
You could tell me it is: What’s the meaning of life, “my life”? Right.
The truth is that even philosophers, teachers, and students put this question in their top ten philosophical questions most people wonder about, and they are right. We have asked from the beginning of humankind, we have faced this significant question ourselves. I would say that we struggle to answer it because we don’t realize we are already "living" the answer to that question. Welcome to another blog here in The Communicator’s Lens.
I will tell you that nowadays, the question has changed. It is about how much time we have to enjoy life, to take care of us, to live life to its fulfillment? Yes, Time, Time, Time, Time.
In nature and society, everything is in a state of perennial movement and constant change, as something that is constantly renewing and developing and where there is always something that is born and develops and something that dies and expires. All of these changes take place in space and time; space and time constitute the physical forms of existence of matter and are inseparable from it, just as a heart is unified for living.
I wanted to talk about time because life is short, and through new developments in tech, construction of modern lifestyle by itself, and as the world keeps moving towards that world, we will be confusing being productive with busy. It's not like we stop aging like Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake in the movie In Time. In this film people stop aging at 25, where a new economy uses time instead of paper money as the currency. Each individual has a finite amount of time to live, this time is measured by a clock that counts down on their wrist. No, We can not stop aging and save time - or add more to our lives. No, well, no.
If anything, as hard workers who reach for the unattainable, we always keep running to a prosperous place, seeking fortune and comfortable lives. We do not notice that everything is revolving around a daily routine that has changed the purpose of using the time to our favor. Instead, we keep ourselves busy rather than being productive and using the time to our favor. Time keeps flying, running away from us. It is not a secret that time plays a huge role in the purpose of achieving dreams, goals, but it also makes us feel the tension of living. We perform as hard as we can and in the necessary time for us to achieve it, but it is still not enough time.
The point here is to understand the purpose of time by itself and our role as a complement with or within it. As the philosopher, Ricardo Yepes reflects, “man and woman are temporary beings and can genuinely transcend in time.” The temporal and the timeless coexist together in each one of us. They are not opposed but complementary. Therefore, activities such as loving, creating science, art, culture, tend to stay above time, and become lasting.
For that reason, the most humane way of overcoming time and not letting ourselves be dominated by it or lose track of our precious time is the ability that we have to see our life in advance, anticipating the future. I know we need to focus on the present. However, having a foot forward in the future is key to maintaining the order of what its priority and track of the specific time we must invest in the achievements of goals we want to achieve. It will give us the freedom of choices about time, our time. It is a balance between time, achieving dreams, and quality of living.
There is no doubt men and women are futuristic beings, open to the future, capable of dreaming, then projecting and living their own lives according to the project that each one of them plans for their lives, in search of happiness, experiences. Hence, the future is where we are heading with the hope of growing and being happy.
If I tell you that time is our compass and we must move from a sense of love, then where do you think this combination will lead you?