Jim O’Brien: I wouldn’t be the first to try to stop time’s inexorable progress...
There is nothing like the silence of an empty house to put you thinking
The Greeks had four words for time — Chronos, Kairos, Aion and Eniautos. Photo: Getty
The kinds of things that bring us to the ultimate questions and make us wonder what it’s all about are things that happen suddenly and sharply.
An unexpected death, a deep frown on the doctor’s forehead, the implosion of a relationship, the loss of a job, the collapse of a business — all these things lead to existential questions; to wondering about it all.
