Doin' the Time Warp

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. – Douglas Adams

I’ve always been suspicious, similar to the animated Toy Story movie trilogy where the toys come to life when the humans aren’t looking, that clocks either move forward or backwards when we’re not watching them.

For example, at work, the clock can stand perfectly still, imitating a statue, but when people are having fun or nod off to sleep the clock speeds up because we all know we didn’t get eight full hours when that darned alarm goes off.

On Christmas Day, just before our dinner, we were all discussing how quickly time flies. A heartbeat later, I hear Groom exclaim as he pointed to the clock. We all looked up in shock as the hands, behaving as usual a moment before, started spinning rapidly around its face, hour after hour passing before our eyes in an instant.

None of us could believe it, but there it was - time flying - and we caught it in the act. I grabbed my phone and Groom used the video feature to capture half a day going by. “Experts,” whoever they are, have warned that in 2011 and 2012, time will speed up even more. After what I seen, I’m a believer.

Which is probably why Benjamin Franklin said, you may delay, but time will not. Or why Albert Einstein suggested that the only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

As most of you know, I just love a good quote, so I’ll leave you with a few more.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams. – Jeremy Irons

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. – Proverb

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. –Jim Rohn

And my favorite of this batch…There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself. – Anthony Rapp