If time is a straight line, it is a never ending one. But the irony is we can't pin point the starting point nor the ending point. Though the ending point is a gradually being created with each second, but the starting point is a mystery.
We are just a dot on that line. Perhaps, a microscopic dot. But the fascinating thing about that tiny micro dot is that it is divided into a million of timelines. To be precise billions. No wait, it is in gazillions. By this timeline, I mean each person. We need an entity to measure the unilateral representation of the line to better understand where we really stand. A few are short lived. A few are long. A few are parallel. And where are we in this humongous timeline.
We are busy. We are making a life for ourselves and others. We are inventing things. We are building. We are investing the time and getting the most of it. And in spite of a gazillion timelines we are standing out and shining bright. We are giving life to that monotonous timeline that has a never ending stretch. We are life.
"Where are you?", a question people ask me, no, a question I ask myself. "Where am I?" In that bright timeline that has been shining bright, I.... I am lost.
A few thoughts and questions:
ReplyDeleteYou say, 'If time is a straight line, it is a never ending one.' How do you know? Is this proven? What if it does end?
'But the irony is we can't pin point the starting point nor the ending point. Though the ending point is a gradually being created with each second, but the starting point is a mystery.' My question is: (wait for it) what's your point? (It was asked for).
OK my main question to throw out here is, what if we are lines and not dots? What if time is a dot. Then: where does it begin and where does it end?
How do I know ? I don't. But it will be good research paper, for sure. And given time, I might even come up with a logical explanation.
DeleteWhat if it does end? Well, to state the obvious, we will never live to find out.
So, counter act : How do you know that it would end ?
If you are going to point out the conditional clause ( "if" ), saying that you are asking me a hypothetical question, so was I pointing out a hypothetical scenario - "If".
The point is that not everything should make sense. I had no idea I had to put up a backdrop providing the relevant hypothesis and scientific solutions to thoughts. I really apologize for being so ignorant.
Now, the point is we can't define when the time started, how it started, it is an enigma to be solved yet doesn't have a definitive proof or explanation. But then again the end point is a steady process. I am a part of it, you are a part of it, we are a part of it. We are making it happen, not without choice of course but by obligation, lets call it that. So, after a couple of million years from now, what and how this "hypothetical" be, we aren't sure about. Will it exist or not, we can never tell.
Well, if you refer to 2nd paragraph, 2nd line, you will find something like timelines, by which I was referring to lines. Dot is we all collectively, "if" seen from afar and "assuming" that time is a straight line. Get the point ? Now, do I have to create a simulation?
What if time is a dot ? May be, may be not! But it is a progressive one, so "technically" speaking it can't be a single point.
If time is a dot, it doesn't have a beginning nor an end. Add two more dots and it's a continuous (never ending).
PS : Should I do research before writing stuff now ?
Your if clause doesn't explain the mandatory state of your then clause. My asking if it does end is in relation to this being your blog post and the fact that this is your opener, and therefore has some relevancy to your train of thought. If it does end or it doesn't end and your answer is that we won't live to find out, the again what was the point in the first place?
DeleteTime can be a dot. You just have to crack open your box a little more.
Maybe you could focus less on taking what you seem to feel is criticism and more on what is more important to a writer/blogger as the open and ongoing conversational discourse. Unless your output is oknly meant to be praised. Or simply part of being another page view.
You don't have to do anything. It's your blog. Its up to you how you takes your feedback and use it productively. Maybe sometimes you know what you're trying to say, and that's all that matters. Maybe sometimes someone throws a weird ball at you and you just find youre ale to see something in a new way. Like I said, its up to you.
Because the if clause if a hypothetical scenario where the then clause isn't proven or known yet. It could be anything and my then clause statement just points of a point of view that I considered. Perhaps, it is wrong.
DeleteWriting at 3 AM without sleeping for about 40 odd hours doesn't yield good opener and my train of thought is pretty much to prove the very last sentence of the post.
The point is that no matter what, time as an entity moves on endlessly. It might have an end or not. But what makes the difference is the tiny blip in that timeline where we are and what we did in that tiny fragment of time.
Time can be a dot. Well, in my analogy I chose to believe it as a straight line.
Well, I didn't take it as criticism. It was perhaps a lapse in thinking or perhaps an oversight of the other sides of the dice which I didn't see.
Umm, Uncheck. No one does that. Never expected either.
Umm, It's irrelevant. I don't generate money through page views nor do I keep a count of it.
Technicality and facts precedes one's opinions. If the opinions are wrong, the whole concept of writing about it gets wrong and there is no point in arguing because it is just wrong.
PS : 6 years of blogging and now I get a comment that I had been waiting for (without knowing). So, thank you. :) Feedbacks need to drive people onto a different set of views and I had been monotonous for so long. So.
Opinions - can they really be wrong? What about arguing against even the implausible, even if the facts are wrong - sometimes there are things our civilisation hasn't yet comprehended as possible simply because we only work on what we know works. In critical thinking and writing (for literature, blogging, anything) contemplating, analyzing and parsing the argument that is against your own opinion strengthens your very point.
Deletere-PS: Trust me, I learnt the hard way that the thing which seemed the 'meanest' was the one that helped me be a better person. You spent a lot of time trynna be annoying [lil bro]... so I can do the same ;) Also ignore my prior typos. I really suck at lying in bed half asleep and typing on the touchscreen.
Opinions - Can they be wrong? Yes. Opinions are basically the contemplation of one's thoughts encompassing within the purview of their knowledge. It is mostly their learnings, their understandings and the opinions that are generated are monotonous (in a matter of speaking). Yes, I do agree with the analyzing, contemplating part but then again it is limited. We don't know everything, yes, and I don't know everything of that tiny something. The point being everything is not written on stone and there is room for different opinions. Some may be right, some wrong. But when we don't know completely what is right or wrong, how can one opinionate and argue on that said thought.
DeleteRe-re-ps : Yes, that is the basic psychology of how things work. Unless you hit rock bottom, you can't get up perfectly. Unless someone is giving the not-anticipated remarks, they use it to change and mold them accordingly. Better person, ha! That train has passed for me, though. Wait a second, what? Me annoying? Are you speaking about my blog posts? Umm, Twitter - You have been roasting me for so long, I have become barbeque. Don't worry about it. I think I can make out the words.
On the time subject and cracking open boxes, there're two really cool books I would recommend. 'Zig Zag' by Jose Carlos Samoza and 'Maya' by Jostein Gaarder. They're part of my fave bookshelf.
ReplyDeleteI shall check them out. Thank you again. :)
DeleteNo problem. Sorry about the weird double posting thing that is happening with my comments. You can forever-delete the replications.
DeleteYup, time is linear, and a lot of us are lost. Dots, specks, call us whatever, we are that.
ReplyDeleteGood post.
Why, thank you. :)
DeleteThanks for dropping by.