Understanding Time and Life [Article]

One of the problems with the concept of life is that it is so broad. What is life to another person is nothing more than an idea. People often attempt to define life according to particular frames. Imagine that a foetus were defined as being life according to the parameters of time. It is a logical solution, providing that time is linear. What if time is relative? The development of a child is defined according to personal characteristics, not time.

We must define our concepts according to characteristics, not the parameters of time. Planets should be defined according to their features, not according to a pre-determined set of regulations which it must meet. The world is defined according to predestination. It is expected that we will meet particular stages in life; birth, adolescence, adulthood, etc. The list continues. What happens, however, when the pre-determined features of life are shed in a different light?

Imagine that a child has the mind of an adult, a child genius. Imagine that a child understands concepts that no adult has done understood. Is the child still defined as a child? What happens if the child then decides to achieve a Bsc? What happens when the child succeeds the adult in tasks which determine the stage between childhood and adulthood? Imagine that a child then decides to take a job, to have a car, to have a house.

Is it wrong that we continue to define the child according to the parameters of time? Time is too restricting. It limits the possibilities. The world should, instead, be defined according to preconceived ideas. For example, a child should be seen as an adult when one acts in such a manner as to be appreciated and understood as an adult.

Maturity is a concept, a misunderstood concept.

The fact that such a concept exists provides us with the chance to change the world. We have the change to determine our lives according to our own parameters. We should not be bound to the definitions of time. We should be bound only by our own limitations. Our life should not be a challenge against time. It should be a challenge against limits. We should continue to fight against the improbable, against the impossible.

This is life. Define it.