Change 'n Time
Even though change is inevitable, we so often resist it as if change will bring us ill-will ... a negativity that will somehow impair us. We struggle to keep things that we enjoy and treasure away from change because those things are so important to us that if they change we will have to change with them, despite the fact that we are not immune from change whatsoever... and we know it.Reflect a moment on how you've changed since you were an infant swaddled in the arms of your mother, safe from any evil wrongdoings. Compare that to where you are this moment, right now, as you are sitting in front of your computer monitor reading this... your age is nowhere close to that when you were that infant because change has brought you to this point in time. You had little choice in the matter. You could have stopped change by taking your life, but you didn't. You rode the cycle of change along with every thing else in this world, in this solar system, this constellation, this universe.. all incumbent upon that singular constant - change, a force that no thing escapes from, not even the most hard, the most solid and dense matter we know of... all things are subject to change. Some more quickly than others, some longer than our own lives, but change does come to all.
Matter does not exist to remain forever. It's not the purpose of matter on any scale. From the macrocosm thru the microcosm, nothing remains as it was. Change eventually reduces matter, altering it into something else, if not several 'something elses.' Presently, our science theorizes the universe is about 13.73 billion years old, these years based upon the rotation of our own planet around our own sun within our own solar system... all a minuscule part of the entire universe. These 13.73 billion years simply translates into 13.73 billion revolutions of Earth around the Sun... the only means we have to measure time, based upon those revolutions we observed long, long ago.
Our measurement of time apparently does not change, at least the type of change that is easily observed, like that of the growth of a puppy that comes into a household and we see it's changing body mass and ability to grow/change by learning. Time is still measured as it was whenever time was accepted to be yearly revolutions around the Sun. Breaking down this yearly phenomenon into first days, i.e. 365 +, which then was broken down into hours, then minutes followed by seconds, which were eventually reduced to fractions of seconds... but the yearly revolution has not changed.
For our human mind, time is the limitation of change, i.e. that which eventually changes is measured through our understanding of time. Time, a constant which mind describes as ceaselessly unchanging, defies all change, even though within time all things change, making Time a firm foundation of all* measurements.
(*including linear measurement, such as inches, feet, miles, the metric measurements, and all dry and liquid measurements... these are accepted as being unchanging during and after the time of measurement for building, creating and making things that utilize such measurements. We don't allow for decay or insect damage or even weather related damage within these static measurements at the time of their usage.)
And so I've reached a Time Out... the end of time spent on this Stream, today. Change is in the air and it includes a car ride on a presently pleasant day of 85F, with possible strong rains later this afternoon, which Phar Lepht needs. To be cradled by time is inescapable as long as we are who, what and even why we are until death do us part. Make the most of your Time...
cecil
8.23.09
[11:04a.m. local]
Picture of the Week:
Longhorn
... as it should
photo: cecil - 3.29.09
... as it should
photo: cecil - 3.29.09
(actually cow, but it wasn't as silly.)