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It’s About Time

A positive and negative tool we use to measure our lives.

Lori Brown, Writer
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readMay 2, 2020

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Image by Alexas_Fotos from Pixabay

Life measured as a timeline.

When people imagine their life in terms of time, it is often linear. The line usually has a beginning, middle and end. The beginning refers to birth and all the things that happened before now. The middle refers to now and the end of the line refers to death.

We can only hope that the line that goes from now to the end of the line will be a nice long line, but this is not guaranteed.

Fancy illustration by Author, Lori Brown

Time is a fantastic measuring tool.

The main use of our time goes towards making agreements about where events go on our timeline. On the timeline we can place things before now and after now. We also refer to these parts of the timeline as past and future.

Time is useful for measuring history.
For example, a birthday is a fun way people track time. We understand the historical meaning of the following statement:

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Lori Brown, Writer
ILLUMINATION

I'm a mom, a wife, and a playful storyteller. Voted Top Blockchain Voice on Linkedin, and voted Best Human Ever by my two dogs. #RuffLife.