What Is Time and What It Means to Be in Time
This essay analyzes the way time is understood by the Romanian peasant. It stated that the Romanian peasant does not seem to have a precise notion of time, which for the careful researcher is clearly an error. It can be said, on the contrary, that he knows this dimension of the world and life, he lives it fully, but in a different way from ours, knowing the time he lived, time in terms of quality. Time in our traditional village does not only remain a practical phenomenon, but it goes on. Man feels inwardly that his being exists in time, he knows that he was born at some point, that he lives in the present and that the days that follow carry him step by step to a future that ends in death. The Romanian peasant knows that time is fleeting and he experiences it daily, sometimes dramatically, but through an orientation of his spirit he manages to overcome the passing moment. To defeat the ephemeral, that is, to overcome time.This essay analyzes the way time is understood by the Romanian peasant. It was stated that the Romanian peasant does not seem to have a precise notion of time, which for the careful researcher is clearly an error. It can be said, on the contrary, that he knows this dimension of the world and life, he lives it fully, but in a different way from ours, knowing the time he lived, time in terms of quality. Time in our traditional village does not only remain a practical phenomenon, but it goes on. Man feels inwardly that his being exists in time, he knows that he was born at some point, that he lives in the present and that the days that follow carry him step by step to a future that ends in death. The Romanian peasant knows that time is fleeting and he experiences it daily, sometimes dramatically, but through an orientation of his spirit he manages to overcome the passing moment. To defeat the ephemeral, that is, to overcome time.
ERNEST BERNEA
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