Day 101 – Life is Like a Clock

Published: March 27, 2016, 3 p.m.

It is time, though, to break camp and head out on our Trek, and as we do, you check your clock on your phone to determine the departure time this morning. You do some quick calculations to estimate how far we will be able to travel today if everything goes according to our planned hike. It then dawns on you that life is like a clock in so many ways.

While there is a certain reality to time, the measure of time, a clock, is a man-made creation. As Albert Einstein put it, "Time is an illusion,” yet nearly every moment of our lives is controlled by the clock. The clock tells us when to get up, when to go to work, when to eat, when to go home, when to sleep, and then the cycle repeats itself each day.