The Physical World- The physical world is another aspect of life that makes us tick. Have you watched the movie, “Deep Impact”, “Twister”, “Dante’s Peak”, “The Day After Tomorrow” or any other stories in a book implying that the world we live in is unstable and ticking by itself? Perhaps if you do, then there’s really ample time to celebrate for we never know when a great earthquake will shake the ground, when a great tidal wave  would rush to shore, when a volcano would erupt and when a great typhoon or drought would consume the land with us in it. The minutes, hours, days, months, years pass us by as our great Mother Earth spins at its orbit and everything seem to be in place. But every now and then at certain points of our planet something tragic happens. History told us that in 79 A.D. Mt. Vesuvius erupted in Italy claiming an estimated 25,000 deaths. In 1556, an earthquake occurred in Shaanxi, China and took an estimated 830,000 lives. In 1815, Mt. Tambora in Indonesia erupted and resulted to around 92,000 deaths. In 1876-1878 drought affected India and a great famine ensued claiming lives estimated at 25,000,000. In 1931, floods hit again China claiming an estimated 2,000,000-4,000,000 lives. In 1970, a tropical cyclone hit Bangladesh with an estimated 200,000-500,000 deaths. In 2003, a heatwave hit Europe claiming an estimated 37, 451 lives. In 2004, an Indian Ocean Earthquake destroyed buildings and caused a tsunami that affected surrounding shorelines in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and Maldives with an estimated 229,866 casualties. So we have our concept of time, caught up in a physical body subjected to live in the physical world as moody as could be based from above cited natural calamities and everything else ticks.

The Consciousness- This is basically what makes us tick, the concept of time would be useless if we are not aware of it. The knowledge that we are alive in a physical body would be useless if one is insane or out of his mind. The awareness that we are functioning as a human being with a physical body subjected to the passing of time living in a constantly changing physical environment is negligible if we have our physical incapacity to think as a normal human being. As I would very well expect, anyone will resent my thoughts on this writing about what makes life tick. A businessman (or most of us) would strongly believe money makes life tick for indeed it does in the actual sense, in the same way that a newscaster would take major social issues, a doctor would side with a patient, a fisherman would take fish, a government official would take politics, a boxer would stand with any major match, and so on depending on one’s line of trade or inclinations (however worst it is). I respect your opinions and as I end this writing we are all entitled to which side we believe in. Just bear with me in accepting that the clock is ticking and every one of us is privileged to sustain life while our hearts keep on its beat as we have our feet planted on the grounds of a spinning planet which ticks by herself as we have that awareness taking our time figuring what really makes life tick.