If Tomorrow Comes to Australia, Can Today Be Far Behind?

Mind bending, I tell you.  Just impossible to grasp.  I don't get it, and if I ever do, well, it will probably not matter any more.  The end of the world.  How can anyone completely understand the end of the world because if the world ends, well. that is the end.  I mean, it is the end of EVERYTHING!  Not just the world, but everything we know and hold true.  The end. Final curtin.  Finito.  Done.

Charles Schultz once said, "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."  Bingo!  There you have it!  If it is already tomorrow somewhere, how can the world end today?  If it exists tomorrow then it would end tomorrow and because when tomorrow comes, it is today...well, the world won't end.  Otherwise, tomorrow couldn't come because the world would not exist.

Huh?

Exactly!  That's what I'm saying here.  We cannot concieve of our own non-existence.  And because of that, we go on living as if there is no tomorrow...as if the world will never end.  But we know in our heart of hearts that indeed, all things end.  Then what?

God only knows.  And that is why we know God exists.  Because God does know and us, with our finite minds, can never know.

Life is Contradictory
at times

I don't get it always, but bottom line: it is true.  The world cannot end as long as it is already tomorrow in Australia.  So there.  Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Wasting Time -- 3 Non-Time-Wasting Ways to Think About

Bertrand Russell once said, "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."  Now there's a quote meant just for me.  Somehow "wasting time" elicited feelings of guilt and sometimes shame.  After all, time is a precious commodity.  It is all we have really and to waste it is, well, a cardinal sin, isn't it?  Or so I thought.  But now I realize that maybe this is not so.

First, you cannot waste something that does not exist.  Time is a construct of man to better order his world and activities.  We need a mutally agreed upon means to intersect and achieve our goals and objectives.  All we have is now but if we only live in the now, we could lose all track of....well....time.

Second, who says doing something you enjoy is wasting time?  Some of the most valuable discoveries in life are made while doing something totally unrelated.  Haven't you ever had the "aha" experience while in the shower?  Haven't you suddenly realized the solution to that nagging problem at work while watching "I Love Lucy"?  Didn't your ever suddenly happen on a new way of looking at the universe while idly gazing at the Big Dipper?

Third, wasting time is a great way to give the mind some much needed R & R.  If you are constantly using every moment of the day and night to work on things that matter, you will become very tired...even burn out.  Play is what makes life worth living.  Even just sitting not thinking, dreaming or even meditating...just  emersing yourself in a emptyminded mindlessness...gives the mind and your spirit and your soul a much needed chance to regenerate.

So there you have it.  You really cannot waste time.  Time is not real therefore you cannot use it, conserve it or even spend it.  It is as intangible yet real as is the spirit and the soul.  It is always and ever and will always and ever be.  Time, my friend, is on your side.

Finally, in the words of Albert Einstein,  "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."  Now that makes sense.