Time Matters, Introduction - A Life Positive Forum

This month (July 2011) Life Positive Forum will be exploring time. Time is an aspect of life that matters to us from the moment we begin life on earth with our first breath. From that moment onwards events in our life begin to be set in time. Yet time is a perspective that is relative. The time as we know it only exists because of the rate of rotation of our planet on it its axis and the rate of orbit of our planet around the sun. In other words time in Jupiter or the moon would be different, wouldn't it? Could this mean that time is not as absolute as gravity or other forces of the universe? Is there such a thing as Universal Time? Can time slow down or speed up? How did our ancients understand time? Can we master time?

Using this Pondering blog and Mystic Musings blog I will be exploring time and looking to innovate perspectives relatied to time. Please join me through your comments in this blog or YouTube videos I might post on this subject and let us explore Time Matters in this online Life Positive Forum.

Nostalgia, Conversations to Bridge the Generation Gap - A Life Positive Forum

On May 16, a Life Positive Forum was held at SVA at 8.00 pm. It was the commencing of a Life Positive project to document the nostalgic recollections of senior generations. It is based on the often given advice to the younger generation that starts with "When I was your age I............" In the forum some of the elders who attended shared some of their experiences when they were younger, most of it echoed the challenges that they faced when growing up, much of which modern living has erased for most youth today. I picked the brains of the youth present to come up with questions on what they would ask their elders if they were given a chance to seek some wisdom from the past. These are the questions that they came up with.

1. Could you share any experience from your past that you think the youth of today would miss out on because of modernization?

2. Is there a moment or crucial experience that served as a crucial milestone to make you who you are today?

3. What challenges did you face in your lifestyle as you experienced changes that the world went through?

4. What can you share about getting the respect of peers and community with the youth?

5. What advise can you give about the process of aging?

I have an ambitious plan of presenting these questions to some of the elders whom I know and will get to know in the future, and posting their responses to these and other questions on Life Postive Forum Facebook site. In time I plan this collection to be a repository of advise and hope for the youth growing up for all the eras to come.