The technicalities of time

The technicalities of time...what am I on about? I'm not even sure if "technicality" is even the right word for this. Well this is probably going to be the most random post to date. What comes to mind this time round is...well, time. Just a batch of mixed, quirky thoughts relating to the element of time.

If you were a superhero...no, no, no. If you had a super power, what would the one be? Well this has got to be a stupid topic, but in the purpose of I am bored! ...As to say before, me, the indecisive, clueless robot, would not be able to make up my mind. I would be greedy or would juggle between two, no three, or maybe...four. So that was before or maybe still is, but that's not the point, the point is for me time travel/time control has always held a fond spot in my heart, right next to speed, telekinesis and flight! So time travel, the ability to bend time and space per say, just like Hiro Nakamura from Heroes. That power just sounds so appealing, the ability to go to what ever time period you want, or stop time for a break as frequently as needed. And just the sophisticated nature of this power, not ostentatious like super strength. Who wouldn't just love to have this ability?

Well, there is a down side. I wasn't going to elaborate, but... Well, if one could freeze time making the world around one's self motionless, stop growing, living for instance, then what about one's self then? Wouldn't he/she still be breathing, growing...ageing? And there we go. As a time traveler one would age just a little longer every time, time travel is used. Your moving through time but your body is still ticking to it's own biological time clock. What disastrous consequences could occur if the power were not used sensibly. Not only does one risk changing history and all subsequent future but if your lucky enough not destroy your own existence alone, you could end up horribly older in the time period that you do belong to. I guess that's the flaw to such a terrific power to possess.

Time...it's one of those things that sets humans apart from animals, I guess. A quote by someone I know, who probably heard it from somewhere else...

"Humans are the only species on this planet to be obsessed with time."

Wise words coming from a person I would prefer not to consider as wise. But, yes, I totally agree with those words. We are obsessed. Just look at the busy, bustling world we live in. All those workaholics out there! We live by time. It gives us purpose.

Time is quite fascinating, how every fraction of a second transforms from future to present to past in a flash. That sequence occurs perpetually. Something so simple, that everyday thing we trace by a clock, yet so complex in its workings, without it we don't exist. Time, the forth dimension.

Another quote by the unwise person, shall call him Mr. Unwise for pace, once uttered the line

"The yesterday's me [Mr. Unwise] is dead."

What he actually meant was that time changes everything and we change with it, constantly, continuously. So by saying the people we were yesterday or by a matter of fact a minute ago, a second ago are dead is to say we are different people as time passes. Every second our minds process more information and we change, in thought, emotions and experiences. We grow. We are therefore a different person to the person we were yesterday, though it may sound very silly, that person no longer exists and hence is dead.

That about wraps up the quirky items.