At one point in time I thought time in and of it’s self was continuous and never ending. Then one day I came to the realization that time is just an idea or ideal even. In my original thinking, time was indeed congruent with the standard definition. However, the more I studied the actual wording (“A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.”
< http://www.thefreedictionary.com/time >)
I was enlightened. I began to see that time is really a perception of events that have been categorized according to the standard PPF (past, present, future) model. Where as future events are only a set of hypothetical scenarios expected to occur.
With all this being said, I could come to a simple conclusion stating: Time is nothing more than a matter of perception used for event categorization.
As far as my initial thinking was concerned, I would place an open ended aspect to time. I would even go as far as to say that time was forever. However, it wasn’t long before I changed that view to find a comfortable landing point with: Time is only kept as long a it has a keeper.
Simply put, if there is not a human to label events along a time line, then time does not exist for labeling purposes. Therefore, time has an ending and is not forever.
I can apply this to historical events in the idea stating: Past time is subject to perception and is not all inclusive. However, we can say that there is a period of time past even though we can not depict all events from all perceptions. We can only do this because we are here to perceive the occurrence of present and future events. We also perceive that these events have been produced through the occurrance of past events.
In conclusion, I can say that time has an ending and is subject to personal perception.
-Nihil