Eric Saxon. Saturday January 16th. "Chronos and Kairos"

Chronos is described as being "linear time," or time having no meaning (Jewett). Kairos is described as being "significant time or fulfilled time." People indulge in certain activities because they either fulfill a desire or simply makes them feel good. However, with the exception of helping someone to make you feel good, these desires only benefit the person undertaking them. This, in a way can be described as chronos, living your life day by day only pursuing your own desires. As humans, we are the most civilized living organisms on earth. We like to think that we have morals, but that sadly is not always the case. Yes, there are many truly good people out there, but as we have seen throughout history, there are also some very bad ones. In order to achieve kairos, we must try to live our lives to the fullest, helping others without expecting or demanding anything in return. Imagine a world where every person went out of his or her way to help someone else. A world where we worked together to improve our environment and the lives of every human. I realize not every person on earth will do this, but putting it in your mind to help at least one person with something everyday, no matter how large or small it is, will slowly make our world a better place. I believe true kairos is knowing that when you are old and not sure how much time you have left on earth, that you can look back and say that you helped make the lives of many people better. Even if you think you only helped someone in a small way, you helping that person more than likely made his or her life much better.