Absurdity & Time
By Mackenzie Kyryluk The absurdity of life is at times lost on me. I wake up, day after day, to a new opportunity, yet the same. Each living soul around this world is given the same time each day. We are defined and constricted to the sense of time our ancestors have bequeathed us. On the other side of the flowing river of time, we are each given an equitable allocation of this undefinable resource. What is time? Imagine you're given the task of explaining this concept to someone with no prior knowledge. “ One second is saying Mississippi out loud, a minute is 60 of those, and an hour another 60 of those, but in a day there are 24 hours, that makes a day, and in a year there are 365 of those, but every four years there are 366. ” Yes, it follows the angle at which the sun moves around the Earth and the time it takes for the Earth to make one full rotation around the Sun. Is it not also a wonder that within that time it takes for the earth to make its ‘full year’ journey, it also sp...