Fixed Opportunities and the Time Parallel

 

Fixed Opportunities and the Time Parallel

Today let’s analyze the problem of fixed opportunities and the time parallel. What is a time parallel? A time parallel occurs when two entities are defined by the same fixed opportunities at an intersecting time. That means that time is distinct for each entity due to its needs. Let’s look at it another way. Usually, at any given time two entities can be doing different things. For example, during the afternoon, I might have plans to go for a walk and you might be going out with a friend. Hence, while both these opportunities are fixed they are working at intersecting points.

Let’s look at it another way. Typically, this can be a direct parallel or an indirect parallel. That means, if you are late for a meeting, the individuals at that meeting are expecting you at a certain time, but when you show up late there is a conflict. This is indirect. A direct parallel would be that while the meeting is taking place, a delivery truck parks outside the building. These opportunities are varying at the same time. This usually occurs when we are frustrated because “we have to wait on others”. Why does this occur and what are parameters? Let’s look at this closely.

Intersecting time is all around us and is in every part of our lives. It is a factor of age since all around us there are old people, young people, children and small babies. All these entities are comingled but distinct. How do these entities interact? For an example, when an older person may be going to the doctor, a young child might be going to school. Thus there is a direct time parallel. Why is it that time intersects and that at any given time many things can occur separately or at once. The answer lies in the fixed opportunities. So when an older person may be going to the doctor at a fixed time and a young person is off to school at the same time and both opportunities are fixed but distinct, what makes them unified is that they are fixed in nature. Time elapses in the same way when a kid is going to school as in an adult who is visiting the doctor. Why is this so? Because time is measured in the same way but both events are taking place at a different place and in unique situations. So they are intersecting. The kid going to school has nothing to do with the person going to the doctor albeit the kid may grow up to be a doctor, but it still would not solve the time parallel at that given moment. The child may have a good day or a bad day at school and the adult may have been tired or weary at the doctor’s. It is all very unique. So while time is intersecting it is still functioning in a concentric way. All things seem to be orbiting in the same time parallel.  

When we are asking a friend to meet us in the city at 2 pm we are both on a trajectory. Our friend has to be there at 2 pm so do we. Even though our paths may vary, each person has to be there at 2 pm. So this is fixed. We can’t be somewhere else at 2 pm since we promised our friend that we’d be there at 2 pm. If we were somewhere else, then our plans would intersect and no longer would this opportunity be fixed but intersecting. However, at 2 pm, while we could be anywhere else, it still would not belie the fact that it is 2 pm no matter where or what we should be doing. Only that if we miss our date, the other person may be angry with us or hurt. So while we must honor our word, we realize that time may in fact intersect in case we got sick or had to tell our friend that we are late. The time would not change only the expression in which it is told. The fact is that at 2 pm you are still the same person that you are at any other time, so while it might intersect for you and someone else, you and that other person are still the same person at that given moment. Your individuality does not change only the conformity of your expression. When we attend a meeting for example, it may be to promote our work, and if we miss the meeting, our work suffers. So direct time for the sake of human advancement feels necessary during fixed opportunities and irrational when it is adjourned.

If fixed opportunities never change, then why does the time parallel exist? Why is that sometimes, some things are important to do and not others? What is the relevance? Someone could be doing something mundane at 5 o’clock in the afternoon while someone else might have an important rendezvous.   We are always capitalizing on time. Socialism for example may require all people to do the same thing at the same time. But when we capitalize on time, something may seem minor and something else more relevant and the offset may seem impartial or unfair. Why is this so?

Because time opportunities are always related to the work of God or good or a higher power. Something important like prayer may be considered more relevant than taking a dog for a walk since one may be viewed as a higher good. To establish the sense of perfect time, we might have to pray to make the best use of our time and neglect something else like watching our favorite TV show. We might have to take the kids to school, or go to the doctor, but the relevance over the one or other is the competitive nature of time that lies in the question of what is the best use of our time at any given moment.

For any fixed opportunity to be true it must be directed towards a higher good or qualitative time so to speak. If we are whittling our time away, doing nothing, it may be the devil’s workshop. But if we are striving towards perfect time, we are always striving to make our situation better and achieve uniformity and conformity with perfect time. The time parallel exists in the same way as our free will. When we opt to do something at any given time over something else we are making a conscious decision to allocate our time in a specific way when something else may be more necessary. When two things intersect, they are better ordered courteously than rudely, as helping an old person or stepping out of the way for someone else, or holding the door. These are all ways where the universal nature of fixed time equilibrium is played out on a social and human level to tell us what is good and rightly and our best use of time for the good of all.