Reader question: What does “Take heed to Father Time” mean? Who is Father Time?
My comments: “Take heed to Father Time” means you’d better learn to take care of your body as you grow older. In other words, you should perhaps stop doing things you did as a youngster, like hopping up and down the basketball court (I have been getting this kind of advice for years, by the way).
Father Time refers to the passage of time, or aging.
The European personification of time came from ancient Greeks and Romans who all had stories involving Father Time as Death. In Greek mythology, for example, Cronus (which is the root of such words as chronology, chronicle, and anachronism) is such a Father Time figure. I’m not going into details because the story of Cronus merits a column of its own, but Father Time came to represent the ultimate destructive force which devours everything (Have you ever heard of the saying: Time devours everything?). In movies and pictures, Father Time, or Death is depicted as an old man cloaked in black clutching a scythe on the shoulder... He’s responsible for ushering the dead from this world to the netherworld, or the afterlife.
Sorry for sounding ghoulish but Father Time is really nobody to be feared. As it is, time is a concept created by man to distinguish the transient from the eternal. And if you’re Taoist- or Buddhist-inclined, you really welcome Father Time for the good services he performs – somebody has to do it, as they say. Kidding aside, imagine how immensely more terrible it would be otherwise if you as a rickety old man gets stuck in this world of poverty and misery for an unchanging eternity…
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