Do you need time?

We usually think of time in the way we all live it — 24 hours in a day, minutes and seconds ticking away, schedules to follow, deadlines to meet. Time feels real, fixed, unavoidable. We set alarms, plan our meals, work, exercise, and sleep according to it.

But what if there were no set time? No clocks, no calendars, no ticking reminders. What would we do then?

Imagine waking up with the sun and resting when the moon rises, just like birds, trees, rivers, and all living creatures. No appointments, no deadlines — just the rhythm of life itself. You might watch the light change through the day, notice how shadows stretch and shrink, feel the wind and the rain, listen to the silence between sounds. You would eat when hungry, sleep when tired, and exist fully in the flow of the moment.

Without time, there is only presence. Only being. Perhaps work would feel like play, conversations like discovery, and boredom like a doorway to imagination. Minutes would not rush us; hours would not escape us. Life would simply unfold in its natural pace, and we would move with it, not against it.

We often forget that we are part of the same world that doesn’t need seconds, minutes, or hours to exist. The trees don’t check a clock to bloom. The rivers don’t measure their flow. Even we, at our core, are bound to rhythms older than any calendar.

So maybe the real question isn’t do you need time? but how often do you live beyond it? What would it feel like to let go of schedules and just exist, guided by sunlight, shadow, and heartbeat?

Time may organize our lives, but imagination lets us escape it — at least for a moment — and discover what it truly means to live freely.