Time
Is there ever enough time? To me it seems like the answer is a big fat NO! I started thinking about how fast time seems to go when you base it on events. I was reading a few days ago that Steve Jobs had died a year ago. To me it seems like he just died a couple of months ago. There are bigger events in society as well, such as the presidential elections. I have never been one to follow the elections or anything, but Obama was elected about four years ago, when to me it seems only a year or two. I can’t help but to think that eventually entire life will feel like this. I will be at a certain age and realize, “Wow, all of that time seems like nothing.”
I am currently a college student studying Computer Science, and one day I’ll have a job, and one day I’ll retire, and one day…I’ll die. Of course the only certain one is my death, but for the sake of this post lets pretend some freak accident won’t prevent me from living a long life. I realize that in time my closest friends may become distant, and many new friends will be made in my lifetime. When I think of this, I want to make the most of the time I have with my friends. I think this now, but in time will I even think of the people that are currently my friends? Will they think of me? Will they one day just be memories that I haven’t spoken with in several years? Will I eventually go to their funerals? Will they come to mine? All of these questions have no finite answer, unless you believe in predetermined fate. But even then, we still don’t have that answer available to us. Are all of our relationship pointless in the grand scheme of time? Hundreds of years in the future, the relationships we build throughout our lives will have no true meaning…or maybe they will? That again is a question we do not know the answer to.
This makes me think, is there any point to the human race, or living organisms in general? The universe would continue with or without us…so why with us? Why have organisms that live, breath, think, and feel? Is it a cruel experiment?
Why do I say cruel? I say cruel due to the fact that we don’t even matter to the universe. We live our lives where we feel pain, hate, and the worst of all, love. We feel these things. We feel love only to eventually have it torn away whether it be by disagreement or death after time.
I say these things so pessimistically only so I can’t say this with more of an impact. “LIVE YOUR LIFE!!!” So what if in the grand scheme of things we don’t matter? Our own conscience, whatever it may be, cares about these things WE feel. The events going on around us matter to US! Make the most out of this experiment we call life! Don’t let anything hold you back! Don’t be afraid to search for love, and if you think you found it, act on it. If you think you lost love, it’s only a matter of finding it again, that is why “time” is there. I just want to end by saying: “Enjoy yourself!”