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\u201cLeaving it to time\u201d is an expression that means letting things follow their natural course, trusting the flow of events, allowing room for maturation, and permitting situations to shape themselves. Sometimes it can also imply avoidance, passivity, or escaping responsibility. Here, however, we will focus on its positive meaning: doing everything one can, and then waiting to see what unfolds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cTime heals all wounds.\u201d
\u201cHe who is patient attains his desire.\u201d
\u201cHaste makes waste.\u201d
\u201cEverything comes to the one who knows how to wait.\u201d
\u201cThere is a right time for everything.\u201d
\u201cWho knows what tomorrow may bring?\u201d
\u201cWater flows and finds its way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Time is the essence of transience itself. We experience a transient life in a transient manner. We call those immeasurably small moments \u201cnow.\u201d The future and the past are merely different perspectives of the present moment. These \u201cnows\u201d flow like frames in a film; each frame erases the previous one, and within this flow we cling to moments in the past or future, falling into a great illusion: behaving as though everything were permanent. Yet nothing is permanent except impermanence itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cLight is the fastest thing, yet it still takes time to cross the universe.\u201d
\u201cWhen we look at the sky, we are not seeing space, but the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We are under the illusion that we experience time. In truth, time is not an exception within the universe; it is the universe itself. The past is an illusion, the future a scenario, and the present a thin assumption separating the two. As Aristotle said, only the present exists. The future and the past are already illusions \u2014 perhaps even the present itself may not truly exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though we have not understood time, we claim to understand the events within it. Consider how drastically our perception of time has changed since childhood. Most of the fears we once carried have now turned into smiles. Many anxieties people suffer through appear ridiculous to others. The obsessions individuals have about their own lives are not even \u201cwrong\u201d within the totality of spacetime. Perhaps anxiety and depression \u2014 these problems rooted in the future and the past \u2014 are habits of those who fail to act as they should. For everyone who fulfills their responsibilities eventually realizes that life\u2019s knots are solved not by force, but by leaving them to time. The art of non-interference begins with accepting that we are part of an autonomous system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cTime is humanity\u2019s harshest teacher.\u201d
\u201cSome knots are untied not by hand, but by time.\u201d
\u201cOne does not learn to carry certain things by forgetting them, but by living through time.\u201d
\u201cTime does not pass; we pass.\u201d
\u201cThe greatest changes are often made silently by time.\u201d
\u201cEvery wound leaves a scar, but its pain changes.\u201d
\u201cIt is not the forced doors, but the doors opened at the right time, that endure.\u201d
\u201cSome answers are understood not by thinking, but by living.\u201d
\u201cIf something is not happening, either it is not its time, or it has no place in the story.\u201d
\u201cSometimes time is needed not to gain, but to lose.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Spacetime itself \u2014 though it appears fragmented and separate as a necessity of our existence \u2014 is fundamentally one. Within the already-charted journeys of two trillion galaxies, humanity\u2019s anxieties about time resemble more a deserved affliction than a genuine problem. Just like the contradiction hidden within this very expression, it is a response we give to ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do we truly have any choice other than leaving things to time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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