Time

Here’s one way to look at time. Someone sends you flowers. They are beautiful. You put them on a table in a prominent spot. On the fourth day, you think, “I should water these.” On the seventh day, you think, “I need to pick up the petals that have dropped onto the table and throw those two dead flowers out.” On the ninth day, you think, “I should dump these dead flowers but keep the vase.” Aging process. Any process. Process is a manifestation of time.

Here’s another way to look at time. You look at the utility poles on the side of a hill and wonder, “Why didn’t someone put the poles in vertically. They are all leaning.” Then you recall a lesson from physical geography that hillsides undergo “creep,” a downward movement driven by gravity. The poles were, in fact, put in vertically, but they moved with the shifting soil. Movement down slope. Any movement. Movement a manifestation of time.

Here’s yet another way to look at time. Energy output related to time equals power. Walk up a hill. You will use energy. Run up the same hill. You use the same energy, but the power is different. Expending energy over a shorter duration means greater power than expending that same energy over a longer duration. Power. Any power. Power is a manifestation of time.

Process, movement, power. How will you incorporate these three manifestations of time into your life today?