NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST | CAPTURING THE NIGHT | WEEK 1 - Time - In And Out

Time is like an endless thread, unseen but always there, following the celestial horizon. It's an immense ocean, constantly raging and calming, warming and cooling. We're just drops in this vast ocean, bound to its infinity. It's our home, and we cherish it; we can't leave it even if we wanted to. Time is an unchanging part of us, as we are of it. It's the boundless ocean of our lives, encompassing change, emotion, memory, and inspiration.

But how can time be within us while we're within it? Time is the cycle of life, a succession of birth, life, and death. It's eternal and will always exist. We're part of time, mere dust particles in its grand scheme. It existed before us and will continue after us. Our purpose is to leave a mark, a legacy in eternity, to be remembered and honored like those before us. Strangely, we control time, shaping it with our actions - whether we rush, arrive on time, or are late.

Our time is ours to use or waste as we please. We will remain a part of time. It doesn't matter if we possess anything, or if we ourselves are someone. We will leave our mark somewhere deep in the mud, and no one will be able (nor want) to displace us from there. We have our place. People say that time is money, power, or fame, but they fail to realize that these signs of 'good social status' are and will remain in time like everything else. Just like a deceased loved one. Or an article in a newspaper. Before time, people and events are equal.

It will joyfully help them to materialize, to develop, and then simply destroy them. But no one should suffer because 'that's just the way it is.' Feelings, emotions, memories - they're ours too. Aren't they eternal? Isn't love, in all its forms, everlasting? Love may differ for each person, but it remains love. It's timeless, a gift from time itself, a part of us. We're carriers of time indirectly; it will carry us and remember us when we're gone.

Time is within us and we are in time. It turns us around, and we turn it around.