We cannot stop time. We have not the faintest idea what time is. Einstein define time as a ‘ray of matter’, but this does not mean anything. For matter remains an enigma and so does substance. Time therefore remains a mystery just as matter and substance. But one thing is sure time goes forward and never in the other way round.
The succession of night and day is irreversible. No way to change the clock. No way to advance the clock rapidly. No way to slow down the clock. No way to impede the chronologic time. No way to comprehend the clock.
We are pushed through time and we have to submit ourselves to night and day without the least intervention on our part and without the least will. We have to undergo time and our physical status takes age in its wake.
We are aging and this irreversible. Our destiny is inevitably towards death. No retarding for death, no change in its aspect, everyone must undergo death. In fact death, mysterious end wall for life, terminate our clock as humans.
How can we explain night and day, its interchangeability, its succession, its phenomenal periods, whether short or long depending where you are on our planet. The viability of time is an obligation as part and parcel of our life-cycle.
We are in need of sleep. No one, until now, can explain sleep. What happens when we sleep? Does our soul fly away?
And then restored to us upon awakening? What exactly sleeping is? We still breathe and see dreams, for some, we come back to life, as it were, upon awakening. Such a question immediately poses the other part of the coin namely what is awakening? We are either in a state of awakening or in a state of sleep.
No can do away with sleep. What happens when we are given to a forced phenomenon of sleeping upon us? Who can tell? No one. In this way we find ourselves questioning life itself where we are forced to undergo awakening and sleeping as an inevitable part of our being.
We sleep at night, or day for some, and our metabolism changes, heart beats, breathing, our systems take another rhythm and another dimension different from our state of being awake.
The interesting thing that this one way and one direction arrow of time deciding our life-cycle, aging and development have a decisive end death, must have a meaning, if at all. That is if we scrutinize its aspect from a distance point of view.
If we take it as part of our routine living then it loses its impact and becomes as banal a s eating an apple or driving a car.
Its impact becomes important when we look at it as a forced phenomenon that no one can escape. And this denotes a significance. What is this significance?
No one can tell until now.
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