In Greek, time has two translations. One is chronos, which most of the western languages drive its root in words such as chronology, chronicle, chronic… The word chronos comes from Greek god Chronos; a nasty minor deity, a glutton and a cannibal who gorged himself on his own children. He was always consuming, never consummated. The deity of the driven.
The second translation is kairos. This is time as gift, as opportunity, as season.
In kairos time you ask, not “What time is it?” but “What is this time for?”.
Which time is yours?
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