Time, pt. 10

It's been too long since I've blogged about time (ironic, because of the whole time-doesn't-exist thing), but I've been realizing a number of things tonight that I'd like to write here. If there's a first question to oppose the time-doesn't-exist theory, it's probably something along the lines of how we measure our lives. Well, we've assigned this thing called time to our lives, but why can't we think of our lives as a collection of moments? A series of rooms, if you will. Top of the page - "I'm gonna base this moment on who I'm stuck in a room with. It's what life is. A series of rooms." Time, moments, rooms, whatever you want to call it, here is what I've been thinking about...

Think about the oldest person alive right now. No one else who is alive is older than that person. Additionally, no one currently alive was alive when the oldest person on life was born. If you're reading this and you're not the oldest person alive, you, me, and everyone else had yet to exist when this person was born.

Staying on this theme, the oldest person alive will be the oldest person alive a lot longer than how long the youngest person alive will be the youngest person alive. People are always being born and they are always the youngest people alive. People are always dying, but they are not always the oldest people who were alive.

We don't know what our grandparents were like as children, or what our parents were like as children. Nor will our children and grandchildren know what we were like at their age, aside from stories passed down. The people who we will know for the longest amount of time are our siblings, so it's important to have as strong a relationship that you can with them, if you have any. If not, think of your oldest friend.

Many people are proponents of the carpe-diem, life-is-short mindset. That's not an incorrect mindset to have, but we will do nothing in our lifetime longer than we live. Living your life is the longest thing you will ever do. Enjoy it.