Ab Irato Tempus Temporis...

As well said by Berlioz: “Time is a great teacher it’s a pity that kills all its students”. And it`s the irony in the phrase of Berlioz that makes me a lover of “time”, and as well of its intrinsic evolutionary dialectic where the only certainty is that “time” is not a straight line, and that events do not succeed in a logical order where necessarily everything begins and ends. I think that I agree with Shakespeare when he defines life as ”A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury” where things do not necessarily starts at day 1….

Starting from the point that “Time” does not necessarily unfolds in his leafy bed linearly, that is exactly when we are faced with the central issue in our ideological vision of time. How could a scientific measure, designed to determine periods of time, a systematic component of measurement used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events, their ranges, and to measure the motion of objects can be interpreted differently by different individuals.

How could a measure of accumulation not be linear? How would it be possible that the future will not necessarily be tomorrow and the past was not necessarily yesterday?

That`s probably why the Greeks had two words for time: Chronos and Kairos. Where the first was only the chronological “Time” or presumably sequential, that could be measured, and that rule the human land, where ordinary men lived. And Kairos meant the "right time" or "appropriate", it would be an indefinite time, where the logical sequence is not valid, and that special things happen...

A “Time” that does not goes by with the elapse of days or seconds…

A “Time” that would be deeply connected with our karma…

A “Time” connected to our perception of the world…

A “Time” that would commend our feelings and be attached to our emotions…

The Greeks were sure that the notion of time as something fluid that moves inexorably forward, or as an environment within which events move in a specifically and define direction, comes with several implicit contradictions in the concept. Independently of religious beliefs or superstitions, we can certainly say that there is no absolute time in this universe. Independently of the level of conscious of the final observer, it would be impossible to define a point of final comparison, and since would be impossible to define that point would be impossible to have a uniform measure, and in the sum of that would be too simplistic of us to base the idea of “Time” in a merely sand drop of an hourglass…

The temporality, to contemporary thinking, is in the essence the being of what the man has conscious of being. This concept comes with the following contradiction: the temporality is the very essence of the being, in consequence, the being is dedicated to the finitude and death. On the other hand, the subject is outside of any certain “Time”, as the thought may dominate the moment that passes through the retention of the past and may also establish itself, in a peculiar kind of timelessness, in the projection of the future. But this "eternal present" is only the moment of passage, the ritual of transformation, the “now” through which the future denied becomes in his negative side, the past. And so appears the paradoxical nature of “Time”, in the fleeting reality that fades at the same time that it becomes something. The past is no more, the future is not yet an event. To create an awareness of time is to grasp the non-being that corrodes your being. The time is essentially the act of starting to be...

But the truth is that there is a clear process of time transformation, or better said a metamorphosis, where the human being changes along side with it. And if this text allows me, I can go back to the remote Cardinal de Cusa, who allegedly was the first to postulate that a circle is a polygon of an uncountable number of angles, and that straight lines after all were curves with an infinite circumference, and use him to understand the temporal metamorphosis. Perhaps the metamorphosis of geometric configurations can be applied to our benefit, as “Time”, initially, have been shown to humans through great natural phenomenon for only then unfold itself into the paradigm of complex non-linearity that we see today…

And knowing the various representations of time requires us to understand a profound concept, ourselves. To know “Time” is to enter the mechanism of the divine mind, trying to determine the odds of our existence. But it is also the desire to achieve immortality through knowledge, an incontestably sine of our existence in both senses: historical and emotional manifestations or ourselves. Understanding “Time” is the key to unlock the why of our experiences, and after all to understand our existential being….




"I don't know anything about light, from where it comes nor where it goes, I only want the light to light up, I do not ask to the night explanations, I wait for it and it envelops me, and so you, bread and light and shadow are." - Pablo Neruda




Listening to Miles Davis and Milt Jackson Quintet - "Changes"