Many of my favourite quotes come from the writings of Douglas Adams. Some are more profound than others. One common one that gets used quite regularly is: Time is an illusion. Lunch Time, doubly so. There is much debate on whether time exists at all or it’s just something man made up so he could complain about when people were late. Adams also made the profound statement; Time doesn’t necessarily happen in chronological order. Time has never been in chronological order for me. I remember stories, irrelevant to when. I could not tell you whether something in my life happened before or after Christmas, or the election, or even 911. Stories to me, are self contained and adaptable and that is how I store them in my memory. I see almost no function for time after it has passed. Stories don’t need time. Time is really only useful for the future, so you’re not late for things. Its main function is to gauge whether we can do this before that. Do we have enough time to take a bath or a shower before the other thing that is supposed to happen at 8pm. Once that thing has passed, and somebody has complained about people being late, time is no longer anything we need to pay attention to or worry about. We may live in the moment, and plan for the future, but our past is just stories. We get to tell them the way we want, and when you realize the power of that, and you make the story the goal, the when is seldom important.