We wonder WHERE time goes. Isn't that so interesting: we attempt to locate it somewhere as though it can be placed on a map.
I guess it can. TimeMap is available from Lexis/Nexis. It is a way of transforming legal case facts into visual timelines. I took a look at the functionality and the visual representations. Time is a line with dates and boxes above and below. In the boxes are "facts". I would assume that facts are things that happened. There are "versions" - versions according to people involved in the the case facts. That's interesting.
Our non-case lives don't have to capture "versions." We have simple calendars with days and time slots that we can fill in with things to do. We call this time management. The promise is that with the right time management techniques, we can take control of our time, making our work efficient, productive, and relatively stress-free. Our social order espouses this view, but we've found limited satisfaction in it. We even have bucket lists to demonstrate that we are in pursuit of ending our days with the sense of nothing left undone.
So let us go back - way back. In the first century AD, the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote On The Shortness of Life.
“This space that has been granted to us rushes by so speedily, and so swiftly that all save a very few find life at an end just when they are getting ready to live,” he said, chiding his fellow citizens for wasting their days on pointless busyness, and “baking their bodies in the sun”.
"But the man who … organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day…"
Today's image shows motion blur of the Toronto subway scene. Motion blur fascinates me as a representation of time passing. And then the clocks from my Redbubble site - a hilarious commentary on our current approach to time. Somehow Redbubble has randomly selected from each season.
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