Sunday, August 23, 2009

The habit to partition time.

We humans have a habit of doing this.
We partition time when it is a constant flow all along.
We cut it into Years, then further slice it into 12 months.
And smaller still, we created weeks, and have it made up of seven days, giving each day a special name:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Everyday has 24hours. Or more generally, day and night.

Then we design our daily routines around these... restrictions.
We have work on weekdays, and rest on weekends.
A meal is named differently according to what time frame it is consumed under.
Then we come to attach different values to these... so called different time periods.
Many of us dislike Monday and love Friday.
The schooling kids probably love December.
And ladies probably think they're losing their youth when they're reaching 30s.
All these meanings we create out of partitioned time, when it was supposed to be 1 single flow all along.

For it would be hard to master our experiences without dissecting them into separate chunks.
Just like water. Previously impossible to quantify, we force-freeze them then cut them into separate blocks.
Now they can be counted. Else we'd just go crazy trying to count it in liquid form.

There is probably no yesterday or tomorrow.
Just the eternal "Present".