My Ultimate Dream

I wonder how old the earth is. I wonder how much it has undergone changes. And if I were alive in history, I wonder what could have been there before me? I also wonder how old the time is or worse, if it has an age. Even the fact that the world sleeps at nightfall confuses me. The truth is, I have never-ending-and-impossible-to-answer questions in my mind which mostly concerns time. If I could go to certain period of time, I’d always choose to witness the time of innocence or ignorance. That, precisely, is the time when people didn’t understand the concept of time, when they didn’t know what it means when the sun rises and when the sun kisses the horizon. For me, I think, this was how it all began. This was how we came to value the meaning of time. We eventually learned that whenever the sun is up, we say it is morning and that we have to get up from bed, prepare for school, office works, household chores, farm activities, etc. we eventually learned as well that if the sun is low, definitely above the thin line of the sea, it means we have to go home, cook for dinner, get all ourselves intact at home, rest from a hard day’s work and sleep when it’s dark. Few more hours and it’s morning again, then unnoticeably, it’s evening. We wake up, work and sleep. Then we wake up again, work again and sleep again. Don’t you think it’s all because of the sunrise and the sunset? We got clues from their movement. What if we didn’t understand them? If we didn’t, then perhaps, we wouldn’t have to sleep at night, we just keep working and perhaps, we could sleep at any time of the day, anytime we desire to without being deviant. And since we don’t understand the value of time, then maybe, we also don’t understand the shortness of life and the nearness of death. My dream has always been this: to live in or go to a period when people were innocent, ignorant and simple – free from the hands of time.