Time//And the Passage of it

 "Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: by being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting room...by lining up at the box office theaters and then not buying a seat and so forth.." The Plague

The concept of time is something that, though it is all around us constantly, still continues to make me wonder. As to add to Tarrou's statement, I think, how does one not waste time? When I think about this for me, personally, I often consider myself not at all wasting time when I use it efficiently--that is, to say, i get a lot of work done. In addition, i'm not wasting time if I become fully absorbed in doing something that is beneficial to either myself or someone else. However, this also happens to be when I lose track of time the very most. As to follow that old expression, "time flies when you're having fun" we value time so much, but when we become fully engrossed in something is when we are using it wisely. It's only when we start to ignore time, the entitiy that is so precious to us, that we then finally start reaping its benefits. But I suppose that brings another question: does time actually give any benefits, or is it neutral? 

Time is such an odd concept--it's irreversible (well, to my lay-understanding at this point of it) and when I typed that T to begin my sentence was a completely different world, and time never to be repeated again. It's strange to just sit and exist. Try it--blink, it's now the past. Then end of the sentence is now the past, everything you have become aware of is now the past. It moves so fast that it is a little overwhelming to think about. like that famous line in the classical documentary Grey Gardens, "it's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present". It is, in a way, a tad bit unnerving. Time is moving so very fast, yet nothing is happening to me right now. However, who is to say that that is a bad thing?

I was wondering if anyone had a better understanding into the actual science of time--with wormholes, and space, and all those bits. I'd like to understand it more. 

"We are so little reconciled to time that we are even astonished at it. “How he’s grown!” we exclaim, “How time flies!” as though the universal form of our experience were again and again a novelty. It is as strange as if a fish were repeatedly surprised at the wetness of water. And that would be strange indeed; unless of course the fish were destined to become, one day, a land animal."

 --CS Lewis in Reflections on the Psalms