# Temporal
- URL: https://www.petrikajander.com/temporal/
- Author: Petri Kajander
- Date: 2005-01-22
- Language: en

Our life can be compared to a project. Projects have a beginning and an end. Its definition states that it is not permanent—it has a definitive life span. It starts, goes on, and ends. A project has no purpose itself—it is only the means for something. It has a purpose and it is used as the vehicle, the tool, for the objective. Temporal is an interesting term. Something has an existence in time and, therefore, it has to have a starting point and moment as well as have an ending point and time. It is only temporal. Everything that exists in time has its own tempo, time, and place. Nothing is permanent.

Birth, living, and dying. Often the transition points are interesting. In those points, something changes from one formulation into another—a real drastic transformation happens. Still, our own life is mainly characterized by the middle part—the continuation. We focus almost no attention on the beginning or the end. For us, the living part is the only real existence and we ignore the beginning and the end. But how can we know what to do and where to go and, more importantly, where to target if we are not aware of all three characteristics—the beginning, the continuation, and the end—of temporal existence?