Time marches on

Time serves as a marker for how we manage our lives. It has no material form. As children we learn to tell time, but that is merely the act of reading the marker and giving meaning to it. You cannot see, touch, hear, smell, taste, or feel 11:15. The digits that you read only represent time as a symbol not its material form. Yet imagine what life would be like without time. Imagine almost seven billion human beings attempting to coordinate activities without it. Life would be chaos. Time is a concept created to provide order and predictability, both important to mankind. It is a belief in what really has no existence other than what we bestow upon it. Yet it has continued to be a part of how we have lived our lives for thousands of years in the past and likely for thousands of years to come. It marches on invisibly allowing us to make note of events and place them in a perspective. It is this great gift that you use at no cost since you can't buy time. How are you using this gift today as it marches by you?