Flowing People find that whether a purling brook or a mighty river rolls on and is never to return. The elapse of time, turning the youth into the elderly, the fresh grass into the withered, naturally inflicts anxiety of losing time on people. Slow the elapse might be, but however slow it is, people are still deeply disturbed and therefore use the word “elapse” as a constant caution against later generations----hurry up, time flies. As a result, a sense of urgency takes root in this word.