You always have it, like now, you have it in your hands you can do whatever you want with it. You already know it is a man made parameter to measure things, but you know it is there, you just spent some of it reading this.

And my problem with time is that you always have it, yet it always goes away. You will never get that past second, and for all intends and purposes, the last minutes is just a burried as the last sixty million years: you won't get it back. And while this realization is made by the young age of -whatever age you discovered it could not always be your birthday or christmas- it does not cease to amaze me how much the time just goes away. You can't stop it, you can't make it slower, you can't make it go faster. Time just keeps running. And sometimes you just have to catch up with it.

Because if had it our way, time would simply not just run and run without direction or resolution. If only it could be bent what wouldn't we do with it? I know for a fact I would stop it, just stop it and watch the rain drops frozen in the sky, touch them, throw them, play with the floating waters. I would see world, at last at peace even just for a second, and would hear the silence and the echoes of yesterday's dreams and tomorrow's hopes, I would navigate in the motionless ocean of people a big city would be. And then I would just stop, and be one with the frozen universe, take a deep breath and enjoy the quiet. Then of course I would have to bring back time and go on with our normal running lives.

But what would you do? Would you shoot everything in slow motion and watch the humming bird flapp its wings, so then you could beat the Megalev in a speed contest? Or would you just make it faster and see a flower be born and then loose its petals, or stand in the middle of a praire watching the coulds fly around the world like cotton planes? Or would you simply make everything just go one single second into the future, so no one else but you knew that since that moment on nothing would ever be the same?

What would you do if time was bendable? If it was no longer the reason you're late or traison of all men?

by I'm the penguin