Important Dates

Our next meeting will be on March 25, 2010 in Mrs. Gautier's room (209) until 3:15. If you have any questions, please see Mrs. Gautier or Justin Kiefer.

          Time. Time is the ultimate enemy of man. For it is time that we always have so much of, but so little.

          They say to keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. We keep time very close indeed. It is on the walls of our homes, the corner of our computer screens, the dashboard of our automobiles, our cell phones, and even our portable music players. Some people even keep time on their wrists.

          Many claim that man is his own worst enemy. Yet even the thought of this requires time. It requires time to think, time to process, and time to accept.

          Time is a luxury that we hate. A student may watch the clock in anguish as they scurry to finish a hard test.  Every time he makes a mistake, he must pick up the pencil and erase, causing more time to pass by. At that same moment, a father may be enjoying a day off of work. Yet the thought of how little time he has to relax eats away at him, for he will soon be spending less time doing what he wants and more time doing what he needs.

          Some scientists say that time is a human invention, a realization of our own mortality. Events move in a linear fashion, our perception of which is known as time.   

          Time waits for nobody; it always moves forward, never backward. If you miss the bus, so be it. If you had left the house two minutes earlier, you might have gotten there sooner. On the contrary, perhaps your neighbor who leaves at that same time stopped to have a conversation with you, causing you to miss it anyway. Or rather, maybe the road was icy and you should have left even earlier than that. Either way, you can’t change what was. It’s best not to waste time thinking about it.  

-Justin Kiefer

Editor, The Scarlet Scoop