When I began reading “Lost in time”, I knew what we were about to talk, but I never thought time can get so interesting. We began with the “now” example, and my first reaction was wondering about the very moment I was living, but then I freaked out when I thought that what “I am living” all ready past! So… when is the present time exactly if we cannot catch it??
Then we got Aristotle’s point of view about time linked with movement, and I think most of us agree with him because we can even see it in the movies when time stops everything else is still or at least in slow motion. Also, I relate movement with time because every single action that we do, we measure it with time like.. “in the morning I went to school” I’m all ready implying time and action. And let’s just take a look to ourselves; we’re not the same as we were 10 years ago, we have changed physically! Meaning we had some kind of movement in time.
But then I read the phrase of Pierre de Ronsard “Time goes, time goes, my Lady, Alas, not time, we are the ones who go” that means that we believe that time passes but actually time is always present! What it appears to go it’s “our” time meaning our lives. This made me repeat myself that I am temporal and that I will have an end so, I need to wake up to do what I want and live for the moment, also to learn that the past can’t be changed and I need to move on and that it’s up to “now” how I want my future to be. I think we should leave all the fears from the past and the future and just enjoy the very moment.
ps. I leave you with this video that is not really related with time but I think that it has something to do with the book and the class.
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Your video was funny and induced me to think about my dreams and how they relate to time, how we invest time and what we actually become after everything happens. We might not decide what we will become but we have the chance to dream and to act to influence in what we will.
ReplyDeleteHey Gaby, I agree with you, the chapter was quite interesting, and it made me also think when I read about the “now” , and how when we think about it, it is already gone, it is past right after you thought about it. I agree with you in the idea that what seems to go by is our life, not time, as it is always present.
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