Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Monday, May 03, 2004
As this semester closes and I get ready to take the final exams that I will ever take at this university, I'm sitting here typing in a blog. Which is something I probably really shouldn't be doing because when I look around the room, all I can see is junk piled up everywhere when I have to be packed up and out of here in about 48 hours.
48 hours until I leave this school and never look back. In a way, that's what this entry is about. Not as much my ardent procrastination and transfering schools, but more the medium in which all this is suspended, time. So, yeah, time, I was thinking about this while I was boxing up my extra pants, I need some out so I can still have a couple pair for the next few days, and I am forced to wonder what time really is and just what it's all about. This is a concept most people only think about when they're stoned or about to die, but I can assure you that I am neither. OK well, maybe there's a leak in the gas line but still, that's not my fault. Is time something that man has generated himself or is it something more?
I decided that the answer to this question was "both." Primarily because while there is seconds, minutes, hours, etc... if we took them away, there would still be day and night. People would still be born and people will still die. If you took your alarm clock and unpluged it, or unwinded it if you're old school, your life would not go by any faster or slower but we are still ruled by the clock. At this point, all the thought caught up with me, I made a grunting noise, and passed out.
As I was down in the floor, throwing away trash and doing the best I can to get everything done, sweating like a hooker on shriner weekend due to the lack of air conditioning, I came to the conclusion that it really doesn't matter what time is, but what really matters is that we make the most of the time we have and that's just what I'm going to do.
So right now, I'm going to go back throwing stuff away and defrosting ye old fridge. When your alarm goes off in the morning, hit snooze once for me.
48 hours until I leave this school and never look back. In a way, that's what this entry is about. Not as much my ardent procrastination and transfering schools, but more the medium in which all this is suspended, time. So, yeah, time, I was thinking about this while I was boxing up my extra pants, I need some out so I can still have a couple pair for the next few days, and I am forced to wonder what time really is and just what it's all about. This is a concept most people only think about when they're stoned or about to die, but I can assure you that I am neither. OK well, maybe there's a leak in the gas line but still, that's not my fault. Is time something that man has generated himself or is it something more?
I decided that the answer to this question was "both." Primarily because while there is seconds, minutes, hours, etc... if we took them away, there would still be day and night. People would still be born and people will still die. If you took your alarm clock and unpluged it, or unwinded it if you're old school, your life would not go by any faster or slower but we are still ruled by the clock. At this point, all the thought caught up with me, I made a grunting noise, and passed out.
As I was down in the floor, throwing away trash and doing the best I can to get everything done, sweating like a hooker on shriner weekend due to the lack of air conditioning, I came to the conclusion that it really doesn't matter what time is, but what really matters is that we make the most of the time we have and that's just what I'm going to do.
So right now, I'm going to go back throwing stuff away and defrosting ye old fridge. When your alarm goes off in the morning, hit snooze once for me.
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