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Musing About Time
Breaking down three unusual qualities I’ve noticed about time.
I’ve been thinking a lot about time recently. How it bends and shifts. How weird it is, and how weird we get around it.
Here are a couple of things I noticed that may help you have a better relationship with time.
Displacement — Time is like a solid box and everything we put inside it is like a liquid substance. Since time can neither be created or destroyed tends to simply displace itself to other areas.
When you’ve added something to your calendar you don’t really add anything, you simply displace something else by adding it.
When you remove something you take nothing away you simply create more space for something else to fill it.
This is why it’s so easy to over-schedule yourself, because most people don’t really consider what they are displacing when they say yes. It’s also why you feel busy even when you “clear some time on your calendar” because you don’t notice the other things that flow into the space.
Inhumanity — Time doesn’t really care about you being a human and that things go wrong. It is unyieldingly precise. Time doesn’t flex because there’s traffic, it doesn’t contract because the bus is late. It marches on regardless of what is occurring…
