Time in our life

     Time waits for no man. Time always fly fast when we enjoy it, it goes slow if you are not suffering in your

 life. In our life, things happen randomly in every moment of time. It's like Entropic, or chaotic time. It's

 completely randomness. We cannot predict what's going to happen in our lives in future and what's going to 

affect our lives.

        I use twitter not often than Facebook. I think both of them are basically reflect the  Entropic, or chaotic 

time. you just can see people or yourself post or share random stuff in each moment. Sometime I post a 

status about saying how hard of my class project is. Later in the evening I post that having BBQ party in my 

friend's house. These random events mixes together can affect what you going to do in the future. For 

example, one of my friends tweet that "Watching NBA Heat vs Bulls." I would put my homework away 

watch NBA first. or someone saying she is going to study whole night for the next day's midterm, It would 

motive me to review or study harder. We have too many things to do in our lives and we need to handle and 

manage how to use our time efficiently.

       Time make an very important role in our life. We cannot go back past and also cannot predict our 

future. However, we can live in present and look back what we regret and enjoy. So we can  handle our 

time  to have a better life in future.

Time Machine

The most popular phrase, “Time is money”. This is true. I like my works and life go smoothly. A good time management is a must. I always put myself into teleological time category. During the school, I always use a notebook to schedule my work every hour for the entire week. I do this because there are so much works everyday.  I schedule the time to wake up, babysitting, feeding the baby, study, homework, and more. Without the schedule book, I may forget to complete all my daily tasks.

In twitter, it falls into stellar time category. People like to share their diary on the blogger. I use facebook more than Twitter. I think people in facebook share much more detail about their daily life and reveal more privacy than twitter because they like to post their pictures about their bedroom, their dresses, their perfect bodies, their couples or loves and more. It’s almost no privacy. They also like share their happy and most exciting moment on facebook everyday. In twitter, people are like writing long story and better writer.

After reading of Borges' text, I don’t learn anything from twitter. I do learn a lot from the class, just not on this hypertext or twitter. Facebook and twitter just helps to keep me and my friends together and put our friendship last longer. It helps my friends and I know what’s going on in our life and what we doing daily. So when my friend and I hang out, we know where we up to. Lastly I don’t find myself running in the circle.

Twitter

Although many of us go about our day sometimes with complete disregard for time, I think it is safe to say that we do not get back the time that has passed us by.  How many times don’t we say that there aren’t enough hours in a day or the complete opposite, we feel like the day is never going to end.  What’s interesting is that in reality, time is moving at the same speed it always has and far more interesting, is that there are billions of activities and conversations all happening at the same time around the globe.

 Twitter is a great example of how things happen in stellar time.  I was never an avid user of Twitter; as a matter of fact, I only started using Twitter recently.  However, what I have observed the last few days is that people are interchangeably linked in some way.  Several hot topics mentioned were topics that shared the common interest of many, such topics as the Baseball World Series and college life.  These topics connected individuals because the topics opened up relative conversations.

In stellar time, the events or scenarios that occur, intermingle with one another and affect our daily lives; almost like a cause and effect.  On Twitter, the ‘tweets’ posted start with one simple comment then evolve into full blown conversations.  Someone may post one thing about the Baseball World Series and from that, depending on who posted it and how outrageous the comment may sound, the tweets can go into the hundreds, thousands, or even millions.  Tweets form their own revolutions, sometimes with one group supporting a specific tweet while another group is against the topic being discussed.

Personally, I do not allow for other people’s comments or expressed moods dictate how I may feel about a particular subject.  However, I do understand how media can have such a strong impact on people’s daily lives and how it contributes to forming one’s own opinion. 

A Moment.

I've had twitter for a few years now.
I have a love hate relationship with twitter.
I've grown on twitter.
I've grown with twitter.
I've become friends with people because of twitter.
I've lost relationships because of twitter.
Twitter always listens, even when you think you're tweeting to yourself.
Someone is always reading.
Someone is always tweeting.
I love to tweet.
It's all random.
I tweet while I'm on the toilet sometimes,
while I ride the train, do my laundry, or get bored in class.
I tweet lyrics, quotes,
& on occasion I tweet about how I feel when I go through the motions of life.
At times I see life through entropic time.
Total chaos & randomness.
It's reflected in my tweets.
One moment I'm tweeting about how the man sitting next to me on the train is taking a selfie
& then I jump to how I can't deal with having stepped in dogshit while not paying attention to where I was going because I was tweeting about what song I like most on an album..
Does it make life meaningless to look at it as an entropic watch? I believe you can still find purpose in the chain of random events and MOMENTS one has day to day.
Everything in life, even when planning, comes unexpededly.
Our emotions, reactions, all of that is random half the time..
With life being a chain of random events, doesn't that categorize it as being somewhat StellerTimeish? Scenarios that affect our daily lives.
Yesterday's random might influence Today's random .. which would mean it also falls under
Teleological time? Cause and effect. Giving life it's purpose.
But I was able to find the purpose in all types of times so is there really, 3 different types of times?

Twitter and Activities.

It's always true that time waits for no one. It moves like a tide and it gives us chance to build our life.When time passes we can remember that time, but can't go back. I think on twitter time moves by following stellar time.Twitter is a good example of stellar time.

I have never used Twitter before. I am more used to Facebook, because I think it is an excellent way to get to know people. After using the Twitter I really get the meaning of using a communication website. I think twitter works by following stellar time. For example,My friend posted that we have an exam in next class, and that affect my plan to go to a party. My friend's post forced me to study instead of going out. For that my plans and activities that day were changed. Twitter helps me to know others daily activities and allow me to let other know about my daily activities. It is technology that helps us to use Twitter and on Twitter we keep knowing people's everyday movement. Borges' "Garden of Forking Path" and Twitter is in same page because both of them follow stellar time. It is moving in a same way and there is a something seems very common in both of them without stellar time. That is both of them seems little difficult to get their meaning at the first time. In "Garden of Forking Path", the way author's life was moving and the way our life is moving both are seen that all are affected by stellar time. It has impact in our lives and that make us to work in oder to continue our ahead.

Sometimes I think Twitter is little critical like "Garden of Forking Path" to get close to people . People share not that much as people do daily. Compared to Twitter I think Facebook is little easy. On Twitter we can find a group of people they have same daily activities and It's true, but I think it's not as lively as Facebook. Now I'm in USA but by using Facebook I can know that how my other friends are performing their daily activities. It gives me more clear pictures than Twitter. Compared to Twitter I think it is more easy to contact someone by using Facebook.On Twitter I think sometimes I lost track. I post something for someone and that person is not responding though he/she is following me.

At first time I really didn't get the meaning of Borges' "Garden of Forking Path". After the class discussion I got the meaning of Borges' story. In a same way I'm using Twitter for couple of weeks but still it is not very clear to me. Hopefully After using couple more weeks I will can keep track on Twitter properly just like the Borges' story. Twitter is taking time for me to get it's meaning and it's stellar time.

My view on time

It seems that most people, at least in terms of how they tweet, experience things mostly through teleological time. Perhaps there is some influence of stellar time in that, but teleological time seems to dominate at least the thought process. For example, when I read our classmate's twitter page, @johnyboiiyup, I see mostly individual posts about very specific, and one might argue trite, things, happening in his life. E.g. "I just woke up", or "Very late to class, was stuck in traffic about an hour".

We see the same thing when looking at @LianaBee81, she speaks mostly of specific events in her life as they are happening. For example, "Lost in the city . . . " and "It's time to watch TV!". Truly exciting stuff.

There is however, a bit of stellar time's influence spread throughout. For example Liana says "Thank god there is an erase button". That button is of course there (as Liana acknowledges), only because some twitter programmer decided that twitter actually needed an erase button! They could have left it out, and Liana would be stuck with whatever tweet she found embarrassing, remaining totally public.

On the other hand, we have the way time effects me. When I look at my twitter page, I can't help but notice that I tweet in a vastly different way from how the rest of the class seems to. I tweet almost exclusively about what I'm thinking, interesting quotes, and other ideas and/or concepts. I don't really tweet much at all about what I'm doing , unless it's something particularly interesting or relevant to my followers, like going to see a particular band perform, or working on editing a new batch of photos.

Thus, my twitter is much more stellar-time based. This is stellar time, because the ideas I post tend to be directly related to whatever I'm going through at the time. If I'm feeling particularly anti-theist on a certain day (a common occurrence for a militant atheist such as myself), I won't say "I'm feeling particularly anti-theist today". I'll tweet a Richard Dawkins quote I find interesting, or poke fun at the belief in god in general.

I attempted to access the hypertext Borges reading, but the page was apparently missing. See here: http://imgur.com/RmTl4

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.