Thinking through an Essay

Today I read the essay The tyranny of time written by Ken Mogi on the qualia journal, which you can read on the Net.

Inspired by the essay, I thought as follows:

Time washes away all things such as houses, buildings, and humans. No exception.

I recently think that I may be in the dreams when I was a child.

Of course, I'm a different person physically from those days, and cannot go back to that time.

From now on, I will keep on dealing with daily trivialities everyday. 

And one day, I will find myself in a hospital bed as an old man. Even so, I'd like to have the dreams and hopes of my childhood.

But after a while, Time will come to wash away even such little dreams and hopes. How fleeting!

What is Time? And what is Life?