Artistic Footprint

Time is an invention. Time is nothing more than the amount of things that can happen before another bigger thing happens. A year is divided into days and hours just it is divided by the number of earth rotations, and the Earth is divided into sections. A comparison for a comparison. Like we compare the distance to a star based on time, we compare the length of our lives on that same system. Imagine finding a person who had never thought of time. How old would they be? We would gauge their age by the grey in their hair or the wrinkles in their smile. Some people live for 20 years, others for 100, but each life is simply made quantifiable based on a comparison of other events. How can we break the math, and suggest that the 20 year-old lived longer? The difference is the immeasurable variable of quality. And to understand this, it must be made relative. The same relativity of time can be used to qualify knowledge, happiness, space, and eventually, if left to expand, the concept of evolution and a starting point to existence. This would be the first concept to tie human minds together beyond the realms of information technology, to foretell the future using trends, and maybe to explain the uncertainty of supernatural perfectness.

Quality inherently is not just a better-made product. Quality is a word that can explain something without using numbers. Quality is relative to one person’s experience, and further relative to another’s. Quality has limitations, from nonexistent to perfect. But using situational trends, one could predict what perfect would look like, relative to our species.

Broken down, humans are special in one specific way: our minds are more powerful than our bodies. The body is just a portal with which the mind manipulates its environment, information is received through sensation, then reacted to through muscles and dexterity. We enhance our bodies through invention and the ingenuity of our minds. If the body was the definition of human, then we are superhuman because of what our brains want to do. Our perspective moves beyond the limitations of our bodies through the use of lenses. We can communicate through time using the stored language of folklore and scripture. So our minds are relative. It is only fair to provide a relative world to live in.

The number 3 does not exist, but 3 kilometers does. Why? Because distance is relative to a comparable distance we are familiar with. And we use that relativity to satisfy our mind’s curiosity of space. Because it is a cure, or even a survival tactic, to keep away from danger, or to know how close safety is. “Away” being a safe distance behind the car infront of you. “close” being walking distance to a store for life-sustaining nutrients. Kids get lost in grocery stores, and think their world is over. Their minds evolve beyond the sliding doors and into the space of travel, beyond the limitations of their feet, beyond all that is familiar, and can still feel at home. Therefore, space is relative.

With this understanding, definite answers now turn into spectrums of possibility. Impossibility can be achieved, because so far, the human mind is limitless. We have already overcome so many obstacles that our bodies couldn’t. The most amazing thing, I find, is that our complexity has ancestry of such simple things, yet we can still be born and trained to understand the changes from then till now, and still grow and expand our minds. We are Relative.

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