Time is a random thing. It is the thing that makes us older. Humans use it to organize the world. They have invented a system to try to make order from randomness. The other humans, all of them but me, live their lives by hours and minutes and days and seconds, but those things are nothing. The universe would laugh at our attempts to organize it, if it could be bothered to notice them. Time is the thing that makes our bodies shrivel and decay. That is why people are scared of it. Emily Barr
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Time is a random thing. It is the thing that makes us older. Humans use it to organize the world. They have invented a system that we call time and they believe that by measuring and organizing and categorizing and numbering and naming and tracking and classifying, they can make sense of the universe.

The other humans, all of them but me, live their lives by hours and minutes and days and seconds, but those things are nothing. The universe would laugh at our attempts to organize it, if it could be bothered to notice them. Time is the thing that makes our bodies shrivel and decay with age.

That is why people are scared of it – because everyone dies – but I don’t fear death. I fear life – the sort of life that does not last forever – a life that can end in a second or a second after that or a second after that – a life that ends in a second.

Source: The One Memory Of Flora Banks

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