Where does it go?

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.  ~John Archibald Wheeler

I was sitting down at the table with my kids the other morning, and upon looking at the clock I exclaimed how fast the time just went!

One of my boys' innocently asked, 

"Where does time go after it ticks?"

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A question full of answers~

but none that can be put into words.

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A time museum would be nice.

Bottling the seconds and minutes would be lovely~ especially if we could use them up once again.

But instead,  the tick of the never-ending clock continues

and there is no reverting back.

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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. 

 ~Charles Caleb Colton

Time is not something one can define.

For sure~~~ we can lament that there isn't enough of it.

We can use it (or not) wisely.

We can count it down or reminisce it's moments.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men:  time.  ~Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815

Time can bring us many things.

Beauty.

Longing.

Sadness.

Heartache.

Joy.

Breathtaking moments.

Love.

For the most part~ we are captains of our time.

Choosing how each moment will be spent.

Other times~~~

 time takes us places we don't want to be, but go because it takes us.

Time captives.

Time goes, you say?  Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
~Henry Austin Dobson

Time allows us to become who we are to be.

And enjoy the moments we are blessed with.

Time is a gift.~A great gift.

Time! the corrector when our judgments err.  ~Lord Byron

TIME.

Can be laughter.

And so full of beauty.

How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.  

~Zall's Second Law

~(I had to throw this one in~ there is that matter of being 

just a tad too serious with your time:)~

But regardless of how one views time and where it goes,

it comes and passes with one tick of the clock.

The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.  ~C.S. Lewis

But what minutes!  Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.  

~Benjamin Disraeli

How will you spend your time today?

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