Time is Like Ice Cream

4.22.2012

Sunday.

Something that I have been thinking about lately is time. Actually, we think about time all the time. I’ve been reading this book for classes, called One Church, Many Tribes. And the majority of this book has nothing to do with what I’m talking about. But one part of the book is talking about time as either qualitative or quantitative. The book said that Americans see time as quantitative. That is just the cultural norm, and I could not agree more.  Ever since I got to Australia, life has been all about time. How much time I’ve been here, how much time I have left.

Now that we’re about halfway through the semester, the idea that time is fleeting is more prominent than ever. Time is like ice cream. You have it, and you can enjoy it, you can revel in it even, but it’s still melting away. And it doesn’t matter what you do. It’s going to melt. So you have to enjoy it while it’s in front of you. Because it can’t last forever. All things must come to an end.  And because I don’t have all that long to be here, I think I need to challenge myself to view time as qualitative, rather than quantitative.