Time is precious.

Time is one of the most valuable aspect of life, a non-renewable life source that almost everybody takes for granted, including myself. There are 24 hours, 1440 minutes, or 86,400 seconds in a day, but we never truly cherish it until it's too late. We will never realize the true value of time until our very last moments, where the days are just ticking down upon us. To say that we cherish our environment and everything around us is easy, actually doing it is hard. Surely not all of us walk around and savior every last drop of water, or appreciate the scent of roses, simply because majority of us feel that time is infinite. So here I am, wasting my life away by writing this blog, but hey! Determined to get that A!

In class, we classified time into three different categories; Teleological, stellar, and chaotic time. I've found the majority of my tweets along with those of my classmates fit the criteria's of teleological time. This wasn't a surprise to me, as it is easier to tweet about current daily events such as "I'm going to be late today! Fuck!" than tweets with deeper thoughts, such as "Roses are blue, blah blah blah..." I've had twitter for a year now, but I haven't tweeted for 9 months prior to this assignment. Twitter functions the same way a Facebook status does, so why bother to migrate? I have over 900 friends on Facebook and it would take too much time to rebuild and reconnect those friendships over to twitter. I just simply lack the motivation to do so.

Based on the past few weeks of tweets, and after our last class session, I could recognize each tweet as Teleological, stellar, or chaotic time, and I thought that was quite intriguing, but I still don't completely appreciate the function of twitter. I find it completely pointless and irrelevant to my life. I was only tweeting for the sake of this assignment. Granted that the majority of my "friends" on twitter are classmates whom I haven't connected to or know, it certainly contributes to my I-don't-care attitude regarding twitter. At the same time, if I started following all my close friends and such on twitter, it could possibly spark up my interest if I were to read tweets from the people whom I actually care about, rather than strangers. A tweet from a classmate saying "I failed my midterm today" would have absolutely no impact on me, but if it was the same tweet from one of my best friends, I would instantly message him or her, and offer my condolences and comfort. Thus far, tweets from my classmates had no influence on my life, and I may find twitter pointless and irrelevant, but I do think it has great potential to be amazing if I just gave it a chance. Heh, what am I saying, I don't have time for that.

Reading Borge's text "Garden of Forking Paths" brought several ideas to my attention. I believe that the text is based off chaotic time, that life is random and pointless. Life is a journey filled with complete randomness. Situations are summoned upon us to which we have to make a decision. Similar to levels, after defeating level one, we must proceed to level two, but we could never go back. Time doesn't slow down, wait, or rewind. I don't think of life as a circle, but more of a line with ups and downs, and could be ended at any sudden moment for whatever reason. Everybody live in different lifestyles, but our lifestyles will intervene and collide with others. For example, Albert was murdered at the end of the text, simply because his name was Albert. This shows the randomness in our lives and chaotic theme of time.