#Microblog Monday 198: Time
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“Time is a fascinating topic because it touches our deepest emotions. Time opens up life and takes everything away.” And it doesn’t even exist according to physicist Carlo Rovelli who said that quote.
The whole article will blow your mind, especially when he starts pointing out how milliseconds pass between words spoken and words heard. Or how we’re not experiencing the same minute right now if you’re not living in the Eastern Time Zone. Or how “on a mountaintop, time passes faster than at sea level. Similarly, the hands of a clock on the floor will move slightly slower than the hands of a clock on a tabletop.”
So why do I allow this thing — time — to control my life if it’s this flimsy and unformed?
Do you feel anxious about time, too?
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10 comments
When you live on the other side of the world, and wish people happy birthday before it’s even their birthday in their country, are always in a different season, and often a different day, you just have to accept that time is strange. Flying from LAX to New Zealand means that if we get on the flight late on Friday night, you don’t land in NZ until Sunday morning. (Yes, we’re that far ahead of you! lol) Or in the other direction – we arrive in LAX before we left. Time gives. Time takes away.
So no, time does not make me anxious!
I totally feel that. Like Mali mentioned, when I flew from India to US, I actually added a day to my life I felt. It is a topic that has intrigued me a lot. As you speak about it, I am not feeling that I am the only one 🙂
Hey Mel – you are close to 200. Let’s celebrate 🙂
Sometimes… especially when I feel like it’s going by too quickly, and I haven’t crossed enough things off my to-do list. 😉
The idea that time passes differently at different elevations got to me too. Especially as time is something I’m anxious about.
Your post is reminding me of a children’s book called Misty Morgan. https://www.amazon.com/Misty-Morgan-Serendipity-Stephen-Cosgrove/dp/0843138238
As a soon-to-be 39-year old (still) trying to get & stay pregnant, do I feel anxious about time? You betcha! I feel even more anxious the last 5 days of each TWW, too! Time is so funny – it never seems to move slow enough when I’m on vacation, or fast enough when I’m waiting for something I want. On further reflection, perhaps it’s me and the way I think that’s funny!
Time definitely makes me anxious. I never feel like there is enough of it, and as I get older I am definitely noticing it speeding up. At least my perception of it! I also feel weird about time when I realize I tabulate my life in school years, not calendar years, due to teaching… Not parenting. And I worry about making milestones to slow things down and give time shape without all the ones that come with parenting. Interesting topic to think on!
Wow—that’s kind of a trippy concept. It totally reminds me of one we would have when we smoked weed and got all “deep”.
Why do we let it control our lives??? What would our lives be without it is really the question.
I will read this article more thoroughly, but I also want to recommend Soul Story by Tim Freke, which posits that every thing and every being is an accumulation of time. Each thing/being is the crux between history of the universe (past) and all the potentialities of the universe (emerging present). https://amzn.to/2Jz8r0Y
Also, Westworld’s season 1, violent though it is, blew my mind on this point: “Time, then, … is mostly something that happens now in our head.”
In short, yes.