{"id":83,"date":"2002-10-09T05:23:51","date_gmt":"2002-10-09T05:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=83"},"modified":"2007-04-27T20:55:33","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T12:55:33","slug":"81-of-master-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"[81] Of master of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would I ask if I had only one wish?<\/p>\n<p>What would I ask?<\/p>\n<p>An eternal life? No. An eternal life will demand so much that I&#8217;d later wish that I had never even thought of it.<\/p>\n<p>All of the world riches?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe but money does not really provide happiness to the master of the rich. A rich man will have his worries later. He would wish that he had a simpler life, later.<\/p>\n<p>What would I ask?<\/p>\n<p>I could only ask for one thing.<\/p>\n<p>I would only ask for one thing.<\/p>\n<p>It is time, all of the time in the world; all of it to my own leisure.<\/p>\n<p>I want the power to stop time. I want the gift of turning back time. I want the ability to see into the future. I want the strength over the time stream.<\/p>\n<p>Time has never been my ally. All of the time, always, it searches for chances to strike me down, no matter hard I tried. I tried to be resilient but even the grandest mountain will bow to time. Who am I but a Human?<br \/>\nBut what if I could control this foe of mine?<\/p>\n<p>What would I do?<\/p>\n<p>If I had the power to control time, I will stop it indefinitely. I will let it flows only when I desire it. Never once, I will make sure, never will it slips from my grip and be turned against me. Never, ever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A wishful thinking&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Prof. John Patrick Hayes,<br \/>\nRm 1500, EECS Building, Michigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would I ask if I had only one wish? What would I ask? An eternal life? No. An eternal life will demand so much that I&#8217;d later wish that I had never even thought of it. All of the world riches? Maybe but money does not really provide happiness to the master of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}