"Time"

Time could be defined as:

• A period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something.
• The continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past.
• A person's experience on a particular occasion.

When people consider life and death, time always comes into play, for example: "It was his time to go". This sort of time is a measurement of how long we have living on this earth. We spend our whole lives consumed with "Time".

The time of the day, the time it took to go somewhere, the time it takes Mr Delivery to deliver your pizza.

Last week, one of my very close friend's mother decided for herself that her time has come by committing suicide. Time is a gift we were given. When one's time is up, it's up. But she chose, out of her own, when her time had come. What shocked us all was the fact that she had planned her funeral. The songs, everything. Time stopped when I looked over and watched my friend and her family grieving. They now have to spend the rest of their "time" trying to find answers to why she took that jump off the building. Unfortunately, only she can truly answer that.

Time, if one can help it, should not be wasted. Instead, it should be spent doing what we enjoy and spending it with people we love.

What the philosophers say on "Time":

"I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up". - Einstein

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." - Einstein

"The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it." - Plutarch

"Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go." - Dobson (The Paradox of Time)

"So little time and so little to do." - Levant

"Time the devourer of all things." - Ovid

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." - Sandburg