Forking Paths and Weaving Time

#1 It is easy to think about time as Teleological. When my eyes are closed the whole world falls away and at times when I’m dreaming it even seems that my own existence falls away. Yet based on the Twitter activity it is apparent that time is stellar. My peers had lives that existed outside of me, and frankly had nothing to do with me. While that in itself is not a revelation; I am not a narcissist. The activity allowed me to take peeks into their lives at various times of the day. Understanding this it is hard to ignore the teleological aspect of time. Events happen one after the other and there is an ebb and flow that was visible on Twitter with everyone’s blogs. If you wake up late one morning, and you miss your train which leads you to miss your test, on and on it’s easy to see how one event affected another. At times time seems like a set of dominoes that goes on into eternity. What makes life interesting is there isn’t one set of dominoes there are infinite sets that intertwine and weave in and out of each other. What I found interesting is that while all of our lives are very different, a lot of the experiences had commonalities. There were times when nothing interesting was going on in my life and I wasn’t sure what to Twitter about. When I logged on I would see there were others who were in the same position. Then there were times when homework, school, or just life in general was overwhelming, and when I logged in I would see that others felt the same way. I wouldn’t go as far as to say that I was affected by what they were writing, but I think that I’m not very different from my classmates. We are all presented with similar challenges, and we react to them in similar ways. I personally think this is amazing on some levels since we are a very diverse group.

I have to say the only unanticipated thing that interrupted my daily life was the fact that I was tweeting. It wasn’t second nature to tweet about what was happening at the time. I think I just “go through” life and I don’t stop to think about it or write about it. I just live it.

#2 The Borges hyper ext was a circular activity. No matter what I clicked on at some point I would come back to the beginning of the text. It was truly one big circle. I wouldn’t say that I was attracted to some words more than others because at one point I was trying to see if I would come back to the beginning of the story or would I go in a different direction. I think the designer was not only making a point about time, but about life. Time and life seems to repeat it’s self. This is true now more than ever with everything going on in the world’s economy. Many times it feels that we’ve been in the same situation and you know that once the situation subsides, you’ll be back before you know it. It’s a comforting thought and a disheartening one all at the same time.