Time.....

New Year. New post. What to write about?......

I'm sitting at work listening to the song birds of the Celtic Woman troupe sing their catalogue, and their melodious tones are soothing. I think I need that sort of comfort in the new year. Looking across the lunch room at a newspaper my co-workers was holding up the headline read something like "Taliban Winning - Study Shows". An off-handed but sobering reminder that I had participated in a war that people believe we're losing. Maybe I should step back a bit, and think of happier things.

The space shuttle has only five more runs until she retires, and then we still have little wait until her replacement shows up. Somehow when I think of the new rocket coming in, it's like watching a mid-life crisis happening. You get rid of your wife, rough around the edges but had taken care of your kids, for a slim sweet looking little slip of a thing. Strange how that comparison seems to fit. It's a year for change, or at least it has great potential for change. Honestly though that can be said for any year. We change, the moment changes, our environment changes, and so on. What is life without change? Time is the one thing that changes yet seems never changing. We measure time, and watching the numbers count up (or in some cases down) we measure change, but time is the one constant in the universe that everything is beholden to. Humans and even animals and plants recognize time, if not on a technological and quantifiable level, then at least on a base level. Everything understands that there are cycles we must adhere to, even the stars themselves. What would it be like to master time? Somehow I think if we were ever to realize fully the nature of time, either we would evolve much more quickly, or our minds would burn out from the sheer gravity of the knowledge. Time is truth, and with time all things are possible. To master time, is to become a God of sorts. Imagine if we could master time.....

If there was the chance to be able to traverse time, to change it, to make decisions based on the knowledge you have now, what would it be? Would you travel back to rid the world of a maniacal dictator, or travel forward to see the future and what we've become? Would you use that power to make yourself more comfortable, or to try and help people? Would your hands be tired from meddling in the affairs of universe, or would your eyes be tired from observing the world?

What would you do if you could control time?