Time is a Tickin’
We are half-way through the year already, today being the Summer Solstice when the sun reaches the highest point in the sky in the northern hemisphere. On this day there are more daylight hours than any other day in the year after which they begin to get less reaching the minimum on or around December 21. It doesn’t seem that long ago it was New Year’s Day but I guess that’s an age thing! I remember as a young child that the days seemed to last far longer than they do now. Well obviously that cannot be due to the fact that the days were actually longer in those times but my conception of time and the passage of time has changed. As we get older we may often say to ourselves, ‘Just where has all the time gone?’ or ‘My, my, doesn’t time fly by quickly?’. Because we are so engrossed in whatever it is we are doing we don’t notice the passing of time. Life is short they say but 70 years is quite a long period of time. In the grand scheme of things though 70 years is really a tiny fraction, a mere blinking of the eye. Time itself is a difficult thing to understand. We measure the passage of time by the ticking of a clock and our lives are governed by the same thing but is time itself such a simple thing? How would we cope if we didn’t have such a thing as time to live by? The fact is, we couldn’t! Scientists talk about the bending of time and the stopping time by travelling faster than the speed of light. Does this mean we cease to function when time stops? All I know is one season follows on after another and life, short as it may be, is all we really have whilst we are in time but one day that will all change. Anyway we are half-way through the year already.
Shirley Anne
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