The relativity of time

Our world is viewed through the prism of time. Every event that we have experienced, are experiencing or going to experience is imprinted in a linear time continuum and our state of mind is always relative to it.
The only thing we crave really bad is more time... especially when we are closer to our death. Everything else pales into insignificance compared to the lack of time.
What is time?
We on earth count time in seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years. How did we create this measure?
The earth takes 1 year to circumnavigate the sun. From that one year we broke it down into 365 days, 24 houts per day, 60 ininutes per hour and finally 60 seconds per minute.
If we use this same logic, for someone living in the moon, they are orbiting the earth once a day. Their year is equal to our one day. Their one hour is 9.8 secs for us. So if man was living on the moon would they have a shorter life span or would they live to be 2000 years or more?
Now take the fact that the sun revolves around the center of the milky way and takes 230 million years to circumnavigate the milky way. 230 million years for us is just one year for them. One second of ours is 13 years for them...
Hope I've confused you as much as I've confused myself with these numbers.
Suffice to say that our world view is constructed because of the way we experience time. If we are able to experience time differently our world view will be completely different.
That may not help to bring food to the table, but it could open your eyes to the magnificence of this creation and our universe.
Go chew on it!!

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