On Time

Time. That eternally and infinitely timeless subject, time. There are so many ways to look at it and wonder and wonder.

Time is divided, subdivided, chopped up and categorized in so many ways, depending on the time of day and the age in which one looks at it. Historical time is most often labelled as linear, running along a straight line in one direction from some point buried in the sands of, well, time.

A day runs from morning to night for some and from sunset to sunset for others.

We often say, when not at a destination exactly when planned, that we are late, not on time. But we are always on time, because we live on time, every moment is time.

We say that some things are "timeless," which means that they transcend time, and are not ever on time at all because a timeless thing is not pegged to our time's segment upon the line.

But it seems quite evident that a straight linear time is not how time is organized at all. It must be circular, although it may not be repetitive.

Our earth is always hinting at the roundness of time. Everything moves in circular, spinning, and rotating motions.

What if time began at a point upon a circle and life is composed of two opposing forces that also began upon that first moment, and these two opposites are repelled from each other? If the two opposing forces are repelled they move in opposing directions from each other around the circle of time, thinking that they are going in opposite directions and further away from each other.

And for awhile the two opposites are spaced very far apart across the diameter of time. But as they each proceed further along the circle they become nearer and near each other until the moment they each reach the same point. The two forces will either merge with each other, becoming one or clash violently.

In the end the very thing we believe we are running from, that is opposed to everything we believe in will be the very thing we bump into or become.

This may explain, too, why we may be running out of time, because we are nearing the other side of the circle's diameter, drawing nearer that point of merge or clash (see "New Theory Nixes 'Dark Energy': Says Time is Disappearing from the Universe," 13 Sep. 2009, www.dailygalaxy.com).

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