Time is what we make of it. Our modern concept of time is something we ourselves have created (well, actually, our forebears of the last two or three centuries created it for us, and we have almost unthinkingly accepted it, because it is part of the mental furniture we were raised with) to meet the needs of the modern industrial era. In pre-modern times, before we had clocks and watches, things were done by sun time. You got up when the sun was up. You worked on your own farm. You had some idea of what work there was to be done, based on what part of the agricultural season it was. As we entered the modern world, people started becoming employees of others and assembled at places of work called factories where each person had a designated job so everybody had to be there at the same time. Hence, there arose the need to know some pre-agreed upon designation for what time it was. Hence, there arose the need for clocks and watches and the need for the standardization of time. With the rise of big businesses which had operations in widely disparate geographic areas, such as transcontinental railroads, came the need for the creation of time zones. And that, my good man, is how modern man has come to be a prisoner of measured time. Time, of course, will always exist. The question, however, is whether we can abolish our modern concept of time. It could be done, I suppose, but it would mean reverting back to a very localized existence. And I leave it to each individual to decide for himself or herself whether that is good, bad, or indifferent. I'm not sure what we would do with infinite time, because no individual would ever have such. Our time is finite and each individual will die someday and, by then, whatever you have done with your time on this earth you have done and whatever you have left undone you have left undone.

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Theodore Lamar Heiks
BA, History/Political Science, Western State College, 1984
MBA, Entrepreneurship/Marketing, City University, 1993