How ridiculous that sounds. How could we possibly gain an hour any more than we lost one last spring? As educated humans we tell ourselves the truth - that nothing was lost or gained, that we simply changed the clocks to better serve our needs. And this we call “Daylight Savings Time…” as if we actually saved any time, or daylight for that matter.
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| "Broken Time" by Danielle Rose |
How silly are we to think that we have any control of time, that time can be controlled, or that it even exists. If we lost an hour in the spring, or gained one in the fall, or gained a day every four years, who is to say that once upon a time, perhaps when Julius and Augustus were fighting for days, we didn’t somehow lose hours or days that were never given back?
In the end would it really matter if we had?
The faeries titter in my ear when people ask for “timing” during a reading. Faeries just don’t see time as we do. Time is not measured in hours, days or minutes in their eyes, it’s measured in moments, achievements and in events that pass us by. What does it matter if something is supposed to happen in two months time, if we never actually completed or achieved what we needed?
Brian Froud said that teeth mark the passage of time… and indeed they do. We watch and wait, often sympathetically, as our children sprout their baby teeth, then lose them, then grow new ones, which eventually decline with age. Animals such as horses can be aged by their teeth. “How old,” “how many years,” and “show me your teeth” are all phrases by which to mark time.
We are told to leave the past in the past for we cannot change it. But time travel isn’t any more absurd than thinking we could gain or lose an hour, or save daylight for that matter. When something happens that’s so terrible our lives are forever changed, such as with a loss of a loved one, abuse, or a divorce, it’s essential to go back to it and reevaluate who we are and have become as a result. Usually that happens at least once - shortly after the incident, when we put it in is place and move on. Sometimes we are brought back to that incident years later and discover that we have changed so much that our view of the event is outdated and needs changing as well. As we continue to grow we can continue to recognize how our view of this life-changing event has and continues to shape our present and our future… and YES, we can indeed go back and reevaluate our perspective in such a way that this past event, the one we thought we could never, ever change, suddenly changes. It changes us, and we change it, and if that isn’t affecting time, then I don’t know what is.
When I was a little girl I used to say time wasn’t a straight line. It was like a dandelion gone to seed, points in “time” floating on the breeze.
I don’t think I ever understood, even then, what that meant as much as I do now. We cannot control time, and time may not in fact exist. Even our biological clocks are no longer tied to time… women having children longer and later, and families being begun by grandparents… Time is just a word, and we are just players in a great game, looking for some order by placing events and incidents in a great imaginary line we call “time.”
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