Time is super important and our understanding of time might even be more important than time itself.

The way that we look at each second,  each minute, each hour, of every day, of every week, of every month, of every year, of every century, really depends on what we’ll do.

What we can do with that time. It’s funny, as I think about this topic, I pay attention to how we look at time. 

Typically today, which is a Newtonian look at time, meaning time is something out there. Something that we’re always trying to grasp, something that’s always sliding by something that we have no control over yet.

A little bit ago I read a book called The Big Leap and it talks about Einstein time and that we are the makers of time.

That time is not our master, we are not a slave, but simply it is something that we can produce. 

You know, I’ve always had an interesting look at or feel with time. I’m curious when you are listening to this, how have you historically looked at time? 

Is that something that keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future like the song says or is it something that you can produce almost like a conveyor belt in your mind?

Think about that for a second, but I’ll tell you where. My relationship with time started to change. I was about 18 years old. I had just gotten out of Bootcamp for the United States Navy.

I was in Norfolk, Virginia and I was on a ship called the USS Cunningham missile, got a destroyer, DDG-17 and we went underway for some test ops. This was before Desert Storm hit, but we were doing test opps and I started breaking out into hives.

You know, those itchy rash type things that happen on your arms, your legs, your face, your chest, wherever. Well, these hives were extremely interesting because they were also happening inside my body, around my heart and my lungs. 

The doctor put me on massive doses of Benadryl and Steroids and it got to the point where I was on so much Benadryl that they couldn’t wake me up in the morning.

One morning they tried to wake me up at about four, four 30 in the morning because I was a cook in the Navy to go do my job and they could not wake me up.

When I finally woke up later that day, I went to my master chief and he said, Hey, you’ve got to go to the doctor. We’ve got to get this figured out. This is no good. This will not work.

So I went to the doctor and the doctor said, Hey, not that this would ever happen, but if there was a fire on board the ship, we couldn’t wake you up.

We couldn’t get you out. So what we’re going to do is we’re going to have a helicopter come pick you up. 

We’re going to send you to a transient personnel unit and we’re going to get tests done and we’re going to get you fixed. We’re going to get you back in shape and uh, you’ll be good to go, but we need to go ahead and medivac you off the ship.

A helicopter came, I packed my seabag, and I headed off to shore so that I could get tested.

Of course, the first night when I get back, I do what every good sailor does. I head to the bar and I have a good evening.

I wake up the next morning and there’s a bunch of people sitting around in what would be a normal person’s living room, kind of this general space.

They’re all sitting on couches, they’re watching the TV. And I walk into the room just in time to hear the news reporters s...