Time is an extremely abstract concept for me. I am personally addicted to planning every second of my time in order to achieve the maximum outcome. Maybe this sense of time roots the perfectionism in my mind. Therefore whenever something unexpected happens to me would upset me almost immediately. So I would put myself to both teleological and stellar time categories, for there are lots of random things happen to me everyday, but each of them would affect my decisions now or later and this decision will differ my other plans as well. When I go over my tweets for this week, I see a clear line how my decisions move from one to another, then affect myself long term or short term. Last week, I was mostly concerned about my study abroad program, because going to Paris or not directly decides where should I stay for Christmas and where to move since my current lease of apartment will end soon. Last week was a long time for me, I checked my email more frequently and the pending status really annoyed me. Then I started to miss my home and all kinds of related feelings haunted me. It is not a big thing any more after a few days, everything is still going on the same path. But the little delay messed up my study plan since I could not concentrate in addition to exceeded chatting with my mom on phone. And the outcome is that now I have to study more. The reason why I classify myself as a teleological and stellar time is that everything has an effect but everything happens randomly.
When I look at my classmates' post, most of us are posting the going-on events, some happened as they plan and the others are not. For example, I guess now Blanche is concerning about her physics and probably studying hard. Cold weather interfered Jenny's passion about her job and it also brought bad moods to people who she worked with. Naamonet now is working on this post like me, but she had issue with her computer which was not in her plan and it may delay her original plan on her school work. Arosin shows her idea about English class and how this class effects her daily life thinking. All these posts explain at least some of their thoughts at a specific time under a specific atmosphere, they could be cause or effect, random things or chaotic events it really up to how we see them.
Borges questions the existence of reality so he creates a garden intercepts and folks which never ends. The story converts what we usually think and time is not a "straight" path as we normally consider. Countless possibilities and multi dimensions separate one with another. In such a space the concept of "time" depends on our existence so what is coming next is unpredictable.
It is a very good response. Candy’s grammar and overall writing style is great. She covered it all. I especially liked how she talked about her experiences and described her own concept of time. And her response to “The Garden of Forking Paths” was very interesting. I wish she would talk more about her classmates’ sense of time.
ReplyDeleteI agree this responses. You provide good example that how teleological time helps you organize your works and daily activities and stellar time that change your decision.
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