When you think about it, and you should think about it, the days of 2007 are dwindling swiftly down to a precious few and – then, they are no more and we are in a different year.  I don’t think time thinks much about this for it seems to be a commodity that simply reflects the passage of this planet Earth around the sun that has gone on and will go on automatically and we can do nothing to alter or change it.  Meanwhile, there certainly was a great deal we could have done and still can do to make changes in the lives which go on while the world speeds swiftly around its prescribed course and uses up time.

I understand that there is a slight chance that an asteroid can hit Mars instead of the Earth.  That will be of great interest because we have ring-side seats to the event gifted us by our satellites and telescopes out in space where the atmosphere is mostly clear of air and junk we have been sending up there for space stations, space walks and missiles on information collecting journeys through the emptiness of space trying to send back electronic pulses that tell us about our nearest neighbors which are impossibly far from us.  We have to make educated guesses what all the distant twinkles mean when interpreted down here on earth as the time just slips on away.

For some, the time goes slowly and seems forever.  This is the condition that sick and injured people find themselves in – a purgatory of pain that is so slow to dissipate and maybe, and that is a real maybe, they might feel like themselves again.  Then there is the time that passes so fast we find we are on the other side of it and all our planning is now under scrutiny to find out what was good or bad about our tests, performances or hopes and dreams.

In the Pool at Jackson North yesterday I asked how many thought that 2007 was a good year.  Only two hands went up.  I then asked how many thought that 2008 will be a better year.  Almost every hand went up.  I am sure that my question was interpreted in different ways by different people.  And, that is the problem with us humans.  Each has a different “take” on the ways those days dwindle down.  I think that the days are all the same before and after the hoopla and noise about 12:00 midnight on December 31 pass into history.  Those days and nights will continue on and we will be here to make of them what we will or let history be decided by others who have plans that are completely indifferent about you and me.

Nope, you cannot stop time.  It is going to continue with or without your input. For those in pain and misery I hope it will end sooner than later.  For the rest of us my wish is that we will employ our intelligence to make our world better and at peace.