Time

Time is a concept that was completely created by mankind. It is very possible to live without time however, today that would be seen as almost a punishment to many people. Our homework for Culture and Identity was to go 48 hours without time! Now this just sounds crazy to think about. I started my 48 hours without time on Friday at 12 am just as I started my black Friday shopping. Not looking or thinking about the time while shopping was relatively easy (I think it was like that because of how tired I was). However I did notice that when we were done shopping everyone seemed to want to know what time it was! I managed to not listen and went on still not knowing the time. I spent basically the rest of the day sleeping, so again it was not hard to look at the time. On Saturday I did have basketball games so I made my dad tell me a reasonable time to get ready and leave. I again found this pretty easy until I got to the game. When I got there I noticed a clock right as I walk into the lobby, and another in the gym and another in the other gym. There seemed to be clocks everywhere and everyone used them apparently because everyone kept checking the time in order to know when to do this and when to do that. I have realized over this experience that people seem to determine almost everything they do based on the time. I had never really noticed before because that's just the way life is and there isn't any reason to question it. Because of this project I'm definitely going to have a different view of time.