Time and measurement

 Hello again everyone!

    This season I've been thinking about how we as humans use so many different things to keep track of things, from time to recipes. The use of these are very different and while I recognize that, I still feel the need to connect them. For you, the reader, I will take my time and go through the thought process and why I connect them. 

    Starting with time. Time has always been such a funny concept to me and I try not to think about it too much, however I have been thinking about how we as people use time to meet and connect. With things like meeting for coffee and meeting for dinner, we use time to determine when and how we meet. I find this reassuring, helpful, and telling of how we need things to remind us of our own mortality. This also makes me think of how loose these time measurements are and how fragile too. In this we see that many timed things are not only broken, but also ignored. This can be seen in how people run late and how talking with friends and family can run far past what was scheduled. This thing that we all cling to is easily broken yet we all hold on to it so desperately. We hold onto it in times of need, in times of joy, in times of pain. This use of time as something that can be spent is very thought provoking but I do not have time for that sadly. What I really want to focus on is that fuzzy feeling we get when we lose track of time, or the feelings of anxiety we can have in that same situation. 

    This feeling can also be seen when using a recipe. Have you ever heard someone apologize for trying a new recipe or a new style of cooking? That fear can be seen as something that is learned, or expected as people branch out. But, when using recipes, cooks are encourage to modify, improve, and make them their own. This unspoken push to create allows one to look back at the recipe as a starting point, not a border. When we look at recipes as a place to jump from and not a set of laws that must be followed we give ourselves grace to make mistakes. This makes me think of how it relates to so many other topics, but trying to follow all of them would just be corny. 

I feel like that's the main takeaway I'm using. The idea that when we use things that so often bind us to one way of thinking or doing as tools rather than an immovable force that we have to submit to, we get time back, we get to experience our creativity in new ways. Anyways, it's just something I've been thinking of. 

Thanks for reading!