Our band has this saying we often use to justify our tardiness: “Always on time and never on schedule”. It’s the type of line that you know kinda makes sense, but takes a bit of to time to truly understand the extent of it. While reading, the book I spoke to you about yesterday, The Purposeful Universe, which also bridges the latest scientific discoveries with the Mayan Calendar and has a whole chapter dedicated on the concept of time. It says that even the Greeks had a definition for two types of time, one being Chronos, which is the definition of time we usually are referring to when somebody tells you you’re not on time, the one that can be measured by clocks. It is the ”quantitative and measurable time” based on an astronomical cycle (Earth around the sun/year and Moon around the earth/month). The other type of time which the Greeks also spoke about is Kairos, which is the “right time”, when we talk about ”good timing” or when we refer to so-called ‘’syncronicities”, this is the one we’re referring to. This is the aspect of time that the Mayans we’re obsessed in recording and predicting. It’s kinda when the stars are aligned for things to move forward and to evolve. A good example of this “cosmic timing” are the relatively frequent independant and simultaneous discoveries in science, as well as technology. Take for example Bell and Grey for the invention of the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell paid his application fee for the telephone patent only a few hours before Elisha Gray on Februrary 14, 1876, and they we’re on two different sides of the Atlantic ocean.
So next time, somebody tells you you’re not on time, just ask them what time they’re talkin about:) Very very nice!!!
