P R À I S E.   O F        T I M E

Another word that everyone knows, but not many appreciate. I dictate, this word and as simple as it sounds, it seems complicated to me.
I'll try to define it, explain it, and if you tell me you don't have time to listen or read, I'll ask: Why?

I claim that time is our greatest asset, and again people don't realize it. I remember in my youth, when I found I didn't have time to do something, I'd ask myself why not buy it? Is there someone who could sell it to me? And since no one could do it for me, I wondered if I could find a way to produce it, put it in a box and offer it to the public.

 

Who was the first person to tell us about time?
In my opinion, Aristotle was the first to ask the question: "What is time? He came to the following conclusion: time is the measure of change. Things are always changing. We call "time" the measurement, the counting of this change.
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 I know for a fact that, throughout time, many thinkers and philosophers have tried to explain and present this to us, and what have we done with all these fine explanations? I suppose you'll tell me that many of us didn't have the time to deal with this subject. I'm sure that if I do a little research, I'll come up with a thousand and one explanations. Will I have time to write about them all?

I'll try to present just a few.
The dictionary tells us that time is "one of the dimensions of the universe according to which the irreversible succession of phenomena seems to be ordered". Am I satisfied with this explanation? Not quite. A little further on, the explanation becomes more complex, namely that movement and time are relative to each other... I believe it was Pascal who left us these words. Baudelaire, for his part, found that "time is the vigilant and fatal enemy".

While my intention was to explain time in the simplest, easiest way possible, here I am making it rather difficult.

This is what our friend. Aristotle (4th century B.C.E Greek philosopher) said about time: "Existence also flows in time. We grow old, we change moods, we change goals. Time has a starting point (birth) and an end point (death). For him, time can be quantified: we can evaluate and determine the quantity of time that has passed (second minute hour, day, week month, year decade century), from which he concludes that time is the number of movement”,

In this sense, time is assimilated.

I found in my other friend Jean d'Ormesson's book "L'histoire du Juif errant" that time allows us to furnish existence. "All that we leave in this life is of no importance, but life is given to us to do with passion things that are of no importance".

I read the last paragraph of "The Genius of Judaism" by Bernard Henri Levy. He says: "We have plenty of time, up to the age of 120, to learn that a life of soul and spirit is an exceptional exception, snatched not only from the order of death, but also from that of the most notable stains... the journey has only just begun. Curiously, Rabbi David J Wolfe, in his book "Why Faith Matters", uses the same words, saying: "As in all of life, the noblest moments are those when we are prepared for the wonders that await us".

I found a long sentence by Napoleon Hill in "Inspirational Quotes". He was a well-known author of self-help books in the early 20th century, whose books conveyed a sense of urgency to act. He understood that change can be frightening and that, for this reason, many people hesitate before pursuing the things they really want. Hill reminds us that the moment will never be "perfect", and that now is the time to set about realizing our dreams.

That's why time shouldn't just reflect the present, it should move us forward. Don't wait. The moment will never be perfect.

I also found an intriguing coincidence: An ancient Arabic proverb says: "Man fears time, but time fears pyramids".
Over 4,500 years later, these majestic structures continue to captivate Egyptologists and attract countless visitors from all over the world. A fascinating fact about the Cheops Pyramid is its remarkable alignment with the speed of light in a vacuum (299,792,458 m/s), which corresponds closely to its geographical latitude (29° 58' 45.28" N = 29.9792458° N). Although not a perfect match according to Google Earth, the similarity of the figures is astonishing.

I'm realizing that I'm taking up too much of the reader's time, because I've got so much more to say, whereas my original intention was to explain time as simply and easily as possible, here I am making it rather difficult.  

I'll end by saying that Newton agrees with Aristotle on several points, but for him, motion is fixed and time continues to flow. A certain Carlo Rovelli, on the other hand, informs us in his book "The Order of Time" that "The past and the future are different from each other. Cause precedes effect. Pain comes after an injury, not before. We cannot change the past. The future is uncertainty, desire, anguish, open space, destiny, perhaps. We can live towards it, shake it up, because it doesn't exist yet".

Everything is still possible...Time is not a line with two equal directions: it's an arrow with many ends".

If you'll allow me two more words and I'll finish: "The time is always right to do the right thing" by Martin Luther King Jr and "A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
by Charles Darwin.