Time.

This thing isn't getting updated nearly as much as I had originally envisioned it. My grand purpose was to have this blog updated daily with something new that we could all sit back and reflect on and have your mind blown about. Yes, you are completely free to admit it. My articles have completely revolutionized the way you perceive the world. Or not. That's okay too. (You mean the one about toilets wasn't all that fascinating? How dare you...)

But when I came up with an excuse as to why I haven't been updating that often, the one thing that first came to mind was that I just simply don't have enough time. Of course, upon further reflection, I realize that isn't the case at all. And that despite our time being taken up by trivial things every day, we have more time than we possibly know what to do with.

Both Marty and Doc Brown are shocked.

Years ago, when our ancestors were farmers (and not being inbred as to continue a royal succession that continues to this day in parts of the world), they would have to work from sun up to sun down. In today's society, we have the luxury of being bored. We occupy our time with all sorts of distractions but at the end of the day, that's all they are. Distracting us from the fact that we have too much time.

And to top it all off, time is going to kill us all. It's the one thing that will exist long after we're all dead and gone.

I spent a while attempting to understand time. Unfortunately, what I ultimately realized was that despite all of Doc Brown's insistence, time travel is not possible. Then again, they also said that about merging a fork and spoon together and we've all seen how that turned out.

Time is one thing that we really need to take advantage of while we have it. We spend most of our weeks wishing away time so that we can reach the weekend, but those are so many moments that we just want to pass up. Everyone hopes for a job or a life where every moment has meaning, but it seems like for now we'll just have to take advantage of the ones we have. Because really, far too many moments in time are taken for granted each day. Unless you get that time machine working. In which case, shoot me an e-mail.