Lost in Time !!!!

This is my last blog, so I am going to try to make it the most interesting for everybody. This chapter talks about the time. As you know time is divided into PAST,PRESENT,FUTURE. The 3 are very important for us because it affect us, each one in a different way. For example I can travel to the past and kill my father, and when I came to the present I wouldn't exist because I kill my father, and my father didn't get married. Another example is in the stock exchange, If I travel to the future I could made millions and millions of dollars in the stock market because I will know what companies are succesfull in the future and what things their price go up, so you go back to the present and buy stocks cheap, and later sell them.

The past is really important to us because it is what we know that has happend. By knowing this you can predict what is going to happend on the future, and also you can avoid many problems that you had. We can learn many things from the past and try try them in the present and future. The future also affect us, you can know in the present what is going to happend later, and take your desicions and solutions to problems.

With the time we cannot play or modify it. We need to ride in the present and try to predict what is going to happend in the future by knwoing or past and present!!!!

wonderful time

in the chapter of lost in time, savater talks about aristotle. aristotle thinks that movement is "intrinsically" linked to movement. i would like to develop or explain what i think about this idea. the idea that time is so dependent to movement is very interesting, because it shows that there has to be a change so that time can be time, it is like we have to grow or everything has to transform so that time can be what we call time. for example, plants grow and change some qualities like shape, color, and other ones, so time passes because the plant grew, but if the plant stayed the same no matter what then time would not be time, because what would be the point of time if there is no change to be measured. we use time to measure the duration of movements, trying to find out how long it takes to something to move and by consequence to change in appeareance. time can be expressed in many ways and still we dont know exactly what it is because the truth is that we just use it to like measure what we do, but we dont understand how we got to that measurement, since centuries ago time has been used, even day and night were created to describe the rotation of the earth and 24 hours to tell how long it takes for the earth to do a complete rotation. my point is, if there were no movement then there would be no time because there would be nothing to measure.

LOST IN TIME

I finally read the last chapter of the book, that talked about time. Before reading it I used to understand the concept of time as a very simple word, but after reading it I understand what does time means. Time is an important reference in our lives, because everytime we talk we use it. "Yesterday I went to the movies." "My next class is in 20 minutes." "Next week I'm going to Las Vegas." "I like to be here." Even without not noticing it time is an indispensable factor in our lives, where memories take place making our past, where the present is happening right now and becoming past, and the future is about to come. As Savater says, "We see the present comming, we see it going away, but we never see it remaining" and the actual moment we are reading is infinitesimally short.

My favorite part of the book is the part that Pascal wrote. He completely has the reason bye saying that the past should not preoccupy us because it has passed, and we should regret nothing, and the future should concern us even less, since it hasn't arrived and perhaps we never reach it. The present is the time that is truly ours, so we should enjoy and live at the fullest the present, because it is the only thing that we have for sure! Most of the people is always worried about the future, and letting the present go away...... Butas my favorite phrase says, LIFE'S JUST ONCE!

Even though nowbody knows exactly what is time, due to it is a very complex concept, what I can get is that for example there isn't a now, because time has passed and that now has became past. So as I already said, enjoy every moment of your life, live every second like if it was the last, always see the positive sides of life and don't waste your time complaining, so we can spend our present in a good way seeing our past as a correct thing we make.

Lost in time

This chapter was actually one of the few chapter or we can say topics that make me think and actually apply it to what I live each day.

As persons we are used to saying here, now, this, and we think that is the present but as Savater said if we say right now, now is not longer now, it is already in the past, we will never see the present stay in a situation because each moment it is already in the past and when we are talking we don’t actually realize that and if we think I don’t think half of the population of the world have actually think in this kind of doubts or questions that are actually very true and easy to understand.

Another interesting thing about time is that it can be measure how you what it to be measure, seasons, months, days, hours but for it to be understood it have to be something common that everyone have the knowledge, you can’t make your own measurement because then you will not be have to communicate with anyone and no one will understand what are you referring to. We can say that without time it will be difficult to understand our thoughts and it will be hard even to tell stories.

Lost in time

This book although at the begging I found it very uninteresting I started liking it at the end, this chapter "lost in time" put me reasoning into things I have never thought about it before for example, I had never thought about what is time. The question Savater asks him self is the same question it came to my mind after reading this chapter " Why is it so difficult to think about time?" Other thing I found it interesting is when he says "we see the present coming, we see it going away, but we never see it remaining" as he says "how can we determine a thing that is but never remains?" I think this is why it is so difficult to find a definition for time I personally think time does not has an exact definition. Also I agree with Zeno of Elea when he says that Achilles will never catch up the tortoise I compared this with what my little brother asked me long time ago, he asked me When will I be as old as you ? I told him something like Achilles and the tortoise, I said " You will never be as old as me because when you are 18 as I am now I will be still 13 years older than you". So in conclusion time is something very hard to define but indispensable for life, so for me an easy definition of time can be a point of reference for doing the activities.

the shiver of beauty

it is very difficult to say if something is beautiful because it is morally good or morally bad. when something is morally good and all the people agree it is morally good, then everyone says it is more beautiful than ever.

yesterday in my house, i saw a relative of mine helping the volunteer group for missionaires collecting food and other stuff to give to the poor people of the country. then another of my relatives told her that she was doing a beautiful action, that nobody does that every day and she should be proud of working for helping people.

then she answered that she was doing nothing but her duty as a human being which is to serve others and help them get what they dont have that she does have. i thought that was an excellent answer to my other relative, which was an adult but anyways, she was reflecting the quotes and thoughts of some of the thinkers of this chapter of the shiver of beauty.

then i started thinking, okay if she says the act is not beautiful because it was her duty to do so, then a big big question came into my mind can we do our duties in a beautiful way? and can we produce beauty? i don't know the exact answer of that and i think nobody does, but what we can do is try to, try to make the best of the best of what we can and see if it worked or not, if it was beautiful or not but never forgetting that it is just a duty and if it is also beautiful then we have a plus.

BEAUTY

Have you come to think if there are any rules, specifications, or characteristics of how someting has to be to be BEAUTIFUL? Before reading chapter 9, "The Shiver of Beauty" I thought I knew what pleasure and beauty mean. But after reading it, I ended with a different meaning of those words, and now I see them different. As I now understand, Pleasure is what makes us feel good, happy, full and want more of that; as Beauty is subjective to everyone, what we can call as perfect, and what give us a good sensation by just seeing it.

In the beginning of the chapter, Savater talks about PLEASURE. He says pleasure is what we enjoy, and as I understood we can have physical an mental pleasure.

Everyday we can call beautiful to anything that is pretty, that has beauty, and we know beauty is subjective. What can seem beautiful for me can seem ugly for someone else. There is no concept for beauty. There are no rules, no specifications to name something beautiful. But also what we can call beauty is not the same as moral respect or admiration. Savater uses a clearly example about the egypcian pyramids. By first sight, most of the people can say that The Great Pyramid is a beautiful thing, but thinking more deeply, we can have admiration, because I think no one can feel pleasure by seeing it, knowing how it was built, with all those sacrifices, unfair suffering, deaths, and we can come to think that it was not morally right to build it. So this opens us the scope for what beauty is, as I said before it is subjective and no one can really judge is something is really beautiful in the inside and outside, or not.