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As The World Turns · Wanzology

As The World Turns Do you know the way to San Jose? Yes!! Many different ways to get to San Jose. Good morning, good morrow. How are you? Welcome to another episode of, uh, Wansology!! I'm your host, The Wanz!! Baby, baby, baby, don't say maybe. Life is happening even though you may not see it, you can feel it, right? Good. Good, good. You doing good? You doing all right? Yeah. Keep on keeping on, that's what I'm about. I am just keep on keeping on, doing all right. Today, I, I wanna be grateful that I've made it through another day. I think I'm gonna be counting days more than I've done in the past because once you reach a certain age, time becomes a little more precious 'cause you have less of it, as you well know, but that's not what I wanted to talk about. What I wanted to talk about is the awareness of the world around you, which a lot of people miss. You do realize that you are a part of something way, way larger than yourself. You, me, any other human being are part of a very, very large system on this planet. They say that we are humans, top of the food chain, that sort of thing, but that becomes a little bit, mm, curious in my book to understand how you fit in with the rest of the things going on. And when I say going on, I mean the world. You live where you live, you do what you do, and what you miss is the world turning around you. As the world turns, not only one of the longest running soap operas ever, but also a state of being. Each one of us lives where we live, doing what we do as the world turns. The world turns at a little over 1,000 miles an hour. Did you know that? They calculate 1,000 miles an hour because one rotation takes 24 hours. That is the basis of the construct we call time, broken down into hours, minutes, minutes have seconds, but what really is interesting is this. It's a question. Have you ever wondered what's going on somewhere else in the world while you are doing whatever you're doing in your place in the world? Say if you lived on the East Coast, in the Eastern time zone, do you wonder what is happening in London or Berlin? Different time zones on the planet, yet all, I mean everything on the planet, connected by this construct of time. I do this a lot. I think it's left over from when I was touring, trying to understand what time it was in different places in the world. I live in the Pacific Northwest, the wonderful upper left-hand corner of the United States, and I am nine hours from Europe, London, Paris. They are nine hours before me. I am 14 hours behind Sydney, Australia, but I'm only three hours behind New York. NYC, baby!! So occasionally I'll look at something here and then wonder, in three more hours, are they gonna be going through this in Hawaii? So I'll look up on my phone what time is it in Honolulu so I can know what time it is there. If you are in the Pacific time zone, you've got three other time zones that have gone before you. Mountain, Central, Eastern. Weird, huh? So you can be having breakfast with me at 7:00 AM in the morning, but it's 10:00 AM in New York, and it's, seven minus three is, 4:00 AM in London. Yeah!! The world is always turning. That is the basis of time always passing. And you know how I am about time. I really dig time. But if I wasn't, then I really wouldn't care what was going on here, there or anywhere. But I'm always thinking about what's going on at this time or at that time or at this other time, realizing that as a member of this system known as Earth, we're all connected by time. We are all connected by the rotation of this planet. Sometimes it gets a little mind-boggling for me because I'm looking at people doing their thing while I'm doing my thing, and then I think of other people in other places wondering how they are doing their thing. As the world turns, so turns our lives every single day, every single moment of every single day. So when you stop and think about this, I don't know about you, but I get a little overwhelmed. I get a little overwhelmed because something has already happened for someone on the East Coast, but has yet to happen for someone who's on the Hawaiian island. You cross the date line and something happened in Christchurch, New Zealand, what would be tomorrow for me, because they're across the date line. I always used to get screwed up with the dateline. That thing used to mess me up. Have you ever looked in the time application on your phone or on your computer? You ever looked at time zones and how many of them there are? I mean, there's 12 time zones in fricking Russia. That's crazy to me. I'm bad enough with three, let alone 12, but that makes it a very, very big place. For the most part, there's probably people in most, if not all of them, connected to you by way of time. See what I did there? As the world turns, so life progresses. The world turning facilitates human beings living. That's what we call it, we are living in 24 hours, one rotation of the Earth, we accomplish whatever it is we accomplish in the course of that one period, otherwise known as a day. Earth spinning 1,000 miles an hour, remember? Which is kind of weird if you're thinking about space, the final frontier. We are spinning, rotating around our sun, avoiding the other planets, rotating at 1,000 miles an hour. All the other planets are doing their rotation as we all go around our sun, and our sun goes around and around and around its galaxy. Can't measure all that stuff. Once we start getting into light years, you kind of lose me. So let's stick to the business at hand. Wherever you are at this very moment, if you're listening to this episode and you know what time it is, do you know what time it is somewhere else in the world? And if you haven't figured that out, figure it out. Like I said, if I'm having breakfast at seven AM, it's ten AM in New York and Florida and North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Vermont, all those places. London, Paris, Berlin, nine hours ahead of me. While you're sipping your coffee, what is somebody else in the world doing? We're connected, y'all. Whatever's going on in your life, I'll betcha your last dollar someone else is going through something extremely similar somewhere else in the world, and they have a different way to either solve the problem, ignore the problem, identify the problem, or whatever. Humans, one species on the planet. There are similarities, like walking. Most of us walk, some of us don't. Most of us see, some of us don't. Most of us hear, some of us don't. Five senses, they're a gift, and there are more people who have the same gifts of sense that you do. But does that mean that they take in the stimuli of their world the same way you do? It does not. Why, you ask? Because they're not you. Billions of people on this planet, and what do they do different than you? Almost everything, yet they're still human beings. One species of human beings on the planet that is spinning at a thousand miles an hour. Now, it may sound like I'm rambling, but I'm not. I'm actually contemplating where I fit at this very moment speaking to you in the world as the world is turning. It's night where I am right now, which means it's daytime on the other side of the world. But is it morning, noon, or evening in those places? Well, I could do some fast calculating. It's morning in Berlin or Paris or London. It'll be morning here in the upper left-hand corner soon enough. What about you? What's it going to be where you are? I ask only because as the world turns, so do the rest of us. Time waits for no one. All life on this planet would pretty much cease to exist if a thousand miles an hour split in half or stopped altogether. That would be the end of the world. Gravity would freak out, and everything would be destroyed. Luckily, science hasn't been able to tell us when or if that's gonna happen, thankfully. I'm very grateful for that. I don't need to know that kind of stuff, and frankly, neither do you. There's a lot of stuff in this world that none of us can control. We think we have control, but it's an illusion. Control is like believing that you can hold a puff of smoke in your hand. It's an illusion. Humans are reactionary creatures and always will be. There's always something gonna happen to you, me, and everybody else, and how we deal with those circumstances will determine how we get through the twenty-four hours in a day. I know, doesn't really sound like much. Doesn't really sound that earth-shattering. You may have already known all this stuff, but there are people who don't wonder. They're not curious. They don't really care. They don't notice that they inhabit this planet with other people, places, and things. The awareness of these people, places, and things makes life a little more interesting for me because it's all happening at the same time, just in a different zone of time. So take your time. Do whatever you're doing the correct way. Or as the song says, "Baby, you can do it. Take your time, do it right." And with that, I will talk to you next week. Peace!!!!