HC asks:
How would you describe time?
Last week I went a bit esoteric, musing that time is the feature of the universe that makes forgiveness necessary. Now let’s try something a bit more basic. Time is the feature of the universe that we measure with clocks. As banal as that statement may be, it is possibly the only statement about time one can make with certainty. Time allows us to decide which events come before which other events and how rapidly or slowly the second followed after the first. And since time is associated with measurement, it’s tempting to measure ourselves with it. Did we spend our time well? Are we managing it as efficiently as possible? But if we measure our worth with time, what happens if not everyone agrees on the same measurement?
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