Influences of Time

Being on Twitter was a new and very interesting experience for me. I discovered something new about myself. I had thought that I existed in a purely theological time where my life was basically a series of cause and effect of events. My main purpose was to go to school to get a great paying job, so that I can get a beautiful house then have some kids and retire. While like many of my classmate, my life is still driven by teleological time, I find myself also being influences by stellar time- intermingling scenarios that affect our daily lives. For instance, the professor’s posted her reaction to her discovery of plagiarism that was done the blog posts. This information affected me in a very adverse manner. I was actually looking forward to a great weekend. I was in a great mood. I had just finished a midterm that I felt good about, but after reading that post my spirit felt – stellar time came into play. If she had not discovered and posted her finding about the plagiarism and had I not read it I probably would have had a fantastic weekend. My weekend was ruined. After reading her post, I was depressed.

At first, I found the hypertext to be very confusing. However, as I click on I discovered a theme the – different paths of life created by time. I believe the designer intent us to view our lives as multi-dimensional, coordinated by only the space of time. The phase, “Time Forks into, perpetually, into countless futures. In one of them, I am your enemy” is pointing toward this conclusion. Like the actual fork that starts with one main structure and then divides into different ends our lives are similar where we end depends on the path that we choose to follow.

The words that most attracted my attention were enemy and friend. What does this says about me? I am not sure? Looking at the words they are complete opposite of each other. If one were to put them on a scale, they would suggest balance, order, control, which could possibly describe my personality.