Has Time Lost All Meaning?

Has Time Lost All Meaning?

Revolutionised by a Pandemic

A pandemic affects everything. It changes the way we look at the world entirely. How we see ourselves, what we do, why we do it?

One of the biggest impacts this pandemic has had for us all is time. What is time? What does it mean to each of us? How did we use time before? In contrast, how do we spend it now? Without realising it, we may have completely lost track of the concept of time.

Making a call, having a cup of coffee, going for a workout. Time isn’t fixed, it never was. It was always how we defined it. Time can stop, resume and even begin again. Prior to this pandemic, for many time was simply a measuring unit. How long would it take to get from A to B? How many hours were left until work was finished? It was used to countdown and mostly to wish away, but time is more than that.

At present, most people are struggling to come to terms with time. There is no next box on their to-do lists. And so comes the question once again, what is time? The discrepancy between now and then starts to muddle together. We find we no longer need to schedule our days to their last seconds. The value of time has vanished.

While fear hangs over the globe, and there’s little discrepancy from Covid, a virus to us, as people. Time might be lost, but it never stands still. The pollution around the world has cleared incredibly, showing us an incredible beauty concealed for some time. The sun goes down each night and rises in the morning. Unsure of what day it is, we are always certain it is day. We’ve passed through spring and most of summer, regardless of whether we can enjoy it or not. Nature runs its course irrespective of time lost.

I for one can honestly say, I can’t imagine myself ever counting down time again. If one thing has come from this pandemic, it’s the ability to get lost in time. To completely immerse oneself in a journey as it innately runs its course.