We Are Our Own Time Keepersby Chris Holly 
(Copyright © 2008 Chris Holly)
I then watched the people and their phones. All of them were half in the time of shopping and half in the time of the conversation they were having on the phone. They did not notice what was going on around them or fully what they were doing while in the stores. They were dividing one time into two. They also looked mechanical and drained. I think I now realized what is going on with time and today’s world.
Because of technology we can now fit more events into one day. We can talk to more people. Be in touch with others all over the world in a touch of our keyboard. Talk to whomever we wish to anywhere on the planets surface, and work 24 hours a day.
The problem is many of us get caught up with this never-ending spin of time and get lost in it. I know I have worked straight for 36 or 48 hours in my life. I would get lost to what day it was or when I last slept. Time would be different for me as I neglected the boundaries of night and day. I would develop my own week of longer time periods for work and end up losing what was a traditional week.
If you add in air travel, constant computer communication, non-stop phone usage- time starts to spin out of control.
Add into this mix a change in gravity, a difference in our sun, the pull of a pole shift plus many other elements and time seems to be a lost constant in the reality of our existence.
I think time is as we use it. If we went to a lovely island with no phones, computers or televisions we find time slower and longer. If we got up with the sun and removed stress from the day we would find days return to those of our childhoods. If we lived a day in a full 24-hour rotation instead of whatever technology allows us to jam in, time would return to a more manageable constant.
I wonder what time is like in other parts of the universe. I am sure the arrangement of time is always somehow based on a daylight or dark period of events. I also am sure in places where technology is millions of years ahead of us time may not even exist. If we make time what it is for our days, maybe the future will remove the constriction of time altogether. We may all end up one big non-stop walking blue tooth!
For now I am going to learn to control my time. I will no longer work ridiculous hours. I will not take a phone call over the conversation of the real time human standing before me and I do not look forward to a world of walking drained exhausted blue shinning machine slaves!
Copyright © 2008 Chris Holly, Endless Journey and the Knight Zone @ endlessjrny.blogspot.com
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