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  Time Depiction 9 Shadows of time My friend Stefano Mino would sketch shadows of various lengths and textures to depict time in its different timings and paces. He replied, “I would use long shadows for evenings and the mornings, short shadows for midday and darkness for the nights.   ‘Fast’ is a shadow that suddenly changes. ‘Slow’ is a shadow that transforms dawdlingly. A man moving quickly has a shadow that depicts him in a previous moment, for example, a step behind.” Time casts  a shadow as it passes by. The reign of a ruthless ruler may leave a sinister icy looming shadow that the future generations may take more than a century to come out of to experience the warmth of sunshine. A benevolent queen or king’s rule may have cast a soothing shade which safeguarded the peasants of the current and forthcoming years. Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. -Nathaniel Hawthorne [author] "Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's o

  Time Depiction 8 The power of now My friend Little Prince replied crisply, “Times is always now.” The smallest unit of measurable time on most watches and clocks is the second. The current moment can be pinpointed more precisely by scientists by the zeptosecond. That’s one-trillionth or one-billionth a second. It’s numerically represented as 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 001. We need to insert a decimal point after which comes 20 zeroes and then a 1. Humans have learned to measure time with even a tinier fraction, that’s the yoctosecond that is one trillionth of a trillionth a second. Time can grow more minuscule than these measurable components. It can go infinitely small. The human brain cannot fathom yocto and zepto seconds. As per research by neuroscientists, we can process visual stimuli in 13 milliseconds. 1 millisecond is one-thousand of a second. I think Little Prince was referring to mindfulness while describing time. My mind runs in all directions like a galloping w

    Time      Depiction 7 Falling behind time A former boss sent me a diagram of various vertical black bars in a sequence. They are growing progressively shorter. Through this image, he wished to illustrate that we are constantly running out of time. Time races ahead at a galloping pace. We are to adjust our schedule within its agitated tempo. We bolt our breakfast to catch a crowded fast train to work. Office goers rush up the stairs to punch in their cards, if they are a second beyond the entry time, they get a black mark for not being punctual. Micromanaged by the electronic eyes of CCTV cameras, we try hard to meet daily deadlines. We may drive back home through the serpent-like traffic, each commuter being in a hurry to reach home for a few winks of sleep to be harked by the shrill alarm bell after sunrise to begin our daily dash. I’m reminded of the poem Leisure by William Henry Davies What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No t

  Time Depiction 6 Fairy and demon        My school friend replied on how she’d illustrate time, “I’d draw a two-sided picture, one perhaps showing a fairy representing the soothing   aspect of time. The other image will be of a demon portraying the ravaging and cruel nature of the same. “ Indeed, time is a giver and a taker.   There are births and deaths. We have a time to build up and break down, grieve and rejoice etc. Time can leave scars as well as heal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3sBuLtR0sY :   "Turn, Turn, Turn" in Forrest Gump #twofaced, #dualnature, #healing, #timeisahealer, #timeiscruel, #toeverythingthereisaseason, #turnturnturn, #peterseeger, #byrds, #fariesanddemons, #birthsanddeaths, #laughterandtears, #givingandtaking, #ecclesiastes, #kingsolomon, #bible, #philosophy, #forrestgump, #happinessandsadness, #introspectingabouttime https://pixabay.com/illustrations/fairy-fantasy-art-scene-design-1206835/ : Image by  Oberholster Venita  from  Pixa

    Time        Depiction 5                                             Two dots My former boss would draw two dots to portray time to show that it’s the distance between them. Time prances from one moment to another. I envision a green frog going hoppity hop along a number line of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millenniums etc. Referring to psychological time, the space between the dots may seem endlessly long at times. This happens to me when I’m anxiously waiting for news or feel excruciatingly bored. A curly winding line seems to link the specks. If we measure the same time in quantitative terms with clocks and calendars, a straight line that’s the shortest distance between two points may denote it. #horology, #timeasdots, #measuringtime, #numberline, #timeline, #clocksandcalendars, #physicaltime, #psychologicaltime, #froghops, #greenfrog, #timeprances, #anxiousandbored, #dotsoftime, #timeflies, #secondsandmillenniums, #ticktock

  Time Depiction 4 Ocean of time Though my school friend cannot pinpoint the reason, when she hears the word ‘time’, the picture of a rolling sea with ebb and tide sweeps into her mind’s eye. The crests of the waves may represent highs, and the troughs lows in life. This vast body of brine conjures an image of the immensity of time. Its depths are a repertoire of amazing flora and fauna. Under the billows of time lie so many events. The present is maybe the sea shores from where we gaze at the ocean blue. We dip our feet in the surf that tickles the beach where now blends into what is to come right after. When we allow the grains of sand to run through our fingers, our tactile sensation may remind us of how quickly time trickles by. On putting a sea shell to our ear we hear the swirling echo of the air around us. We may imagine that we are listening to the unending melody of time dancing around us. When we see volcanoes arising from seas they may remind us that from time’s crat

  Time Depiction 3 Phases of the day and night            Mashi’s mind drifts through various stages of the earth’s 24-hour rotation around the sun. Dawn, sunrise, morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night, midnight, post-midnight to dawn again. She ruefully says, “Once yesterday is gone, it will never return.” #dawn, #sunrise, #morning, #noon, #afternoon, #evening, #night, #midnight, #post-midnight, #day, #night, #earthsrotation, #yesterday, #today, #tomorrow https://pixabay.com/photos/egret-flying-fog-dawn-sunrise-5937499/ https://pixabay.com/vectors/migratory-birds-birds-sunset-sun-157638/ https://pixabay.com/illustrations/wallpaper-cartoon-landscape-people-4839630/ https://pixabay.com/illustrations/astronomy-background-black-blue-4551793/  

Time Depiction 2 An arrow moving in one direction My former boss with whom I had one of my best work experiences reminded me that time is personified as an archer when he gave the answer mentioned in the title. In 1927, Arthur Eddington, a British astrophysicist introduced the concept of time’s arrow.   He believed that there was a definite direction of time’s flow. He studied the alignment of atoms and molecules to establish this theory. In time’s linear journey depicted by this shooting arrow, we may think of the past that lies behind, the present hovering at its pointed tip, and the future which traces the path it is yet to traverse.   As per the second law of thermodynamics going back in time is not possible. Eddington believed that the cosmological arrow points in the direction of the expanding universe, continuously on a journey from order to chaos as per the theory of entropy. If time is slotted on the x-axis and entropy on the y-axis, this arrow may be seen rising fro

  Time Depiction 1 Wrinkles The Chinese shar-pei [dog], naked mole rat, elephant and walrus have folds on their bodies. Humans are born with a brain visually resembling a walnut creased with wrinkles. However, when the same start appearing on our faces, our society with set notions of beauty orders us to eradicate them. They are a natural process of ageing which form over time when we smile, frown, squint, bask in the sun etc. Each wrinkle has knitted our life experiences of laughter and sorrow. The time we spent on sunny beaches and gleaming cornfields have been mapped on our faces. The body positivity and feminist movements encourage us to embrace these lines of age on our faces. Instead of covering furrows with makeup and resorting to cosmetic procedures and surgery, we see women posing on social media with discernible age lines encouraging others to embrace them. A friend thought of drawing a face with wrinkles to depict time. They are after all a testimony to all the ye