The Opportunity Awaits

At its base definition kairos can be defined as simply an opportunity. An opportunity to act in whatever time an opportunity presents itself in a certain situation. All throughout history kairos has come into play. Nearly any political movement, war, or other major event contained some element of kairos. That is why kairos is so crucially important. It is impossible to analyze history correctly without considering the kairos of it.

One important event that clearly contained kairos is the recent allowance of same sex marriage in our society. If this same argument were presented twenty years earlier or really anytime in the past, it would have been written off as a joke. However, with a liberal President in office and a Supreme Court with 4 Democratic members, it was made possible. This is the kairos of the situation. The opportunity was there to present the argument that same sex couples should be able to marry. This is why kairos is so important. Some issues only ever get one chance to be made public. If that chance is not at the right time then it is doomed to fail.

However, I believe that kairos also affects matters in our everyday lives as well. Whenever we make a lot of our decisions we contemplate whether or not the time is right. For example, whenever we decide to do our homework is an example of kairos. We as students have to take into account when we have the correct energy and motivation to produce our best work. If not then we will get an average to below average grade. The opportunity of enough motivation and energy in a quiet setting must present itself in order for the homework to be most readily completed.

Overall, kairos has been and will always be an important factor. Most of the time people consider it subconsciously and do not truly regard it as a factor. Nevertheless, it is there, and it will always be shaping the molds of history.