Everything depends on time and place

 

Time and Place are the most important aspects of our human existence.

Everything happens at a time in our lives and at a place.

We are born at a time and a place; we avoid traffic incidents that occur at times and places where we aren't. We get married - or divorced, find friends, celebrate birthdays and so on.

Last, we die at a time and place.

My wife and I were discussing our visit to the Culloden Battlefield near Inverness, Scotland. We revisited photos we had taken and it occurred to me that we had visited at the right time and place, in 2019 and not 1745.

According to records, the battle, which lasted only 40 minutes, resulted in bitter defeat for the heavily outnumbered Jacobites. Some 1,000 of the Young Pretender's army of 5,000 weak and starving Highlanders were killed by the 9,000 Redcoats, who lost only 50 men.

If we are at the right place at the right time, great things often happen. Conversely, if we are the the wrong place at the wrong time, the outcome can be disastrous or even deadly.

Have you ever been at the wrong time and place?

#Robinoz