what happened to time?
by asi
I cannot really pinpoint how long I’ve been feeling this constant pressure and on such scale (somewhere around a year or so) but I’m constantly haunted by the lack of time. I’m seriously short of time.
I don’t know if it’s a grown-up people’s problem or a happy people’s predicament (I consider my self as both very happy and recently with the new flat and stuff as a grown-up person as well) but I just don’t have the time to do half the stuff i want to do.
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There’s not enough time to read, there’s not enough time to write, there is not enough time to see my friends, travel, yoga, cycle, go to the movies, cook, chill out, listen to new music, watch south park, sex, go to see some exhibition, gigs, work on some new ideas i have in my head, explore London more….and that’s just a very partial list.
I remember the times when I used to get a Sunday night (or Monday morning) blues, ya know…end of weekend, beginning of the week etc. but that’s long gone…before I get to Monday mid day it’s already Thursday evening!
I seriously see my life fleeting in such a rapid pace to the point that my birthday and x-mass (OK…Hanuka to all of my sensitive Jewish readers) come every 6 months or so… I can sometimes mess with my brain to the point of minor anxiety that the days of my God-given life are soon over.. 
(big thanks to The Knott for help with the clock gif)
Hey Asi
Rest assured that you have at least one additional member to your time scarcity crew – it’s a bloody nightmare!
Is time the ultimate luxury now I wonder? Personally, I’d easily take an extra day of leisure a week over anything material.
Anyway, better dash!
Good question, Asi, I just wish I had the time to reply. (Sorry).
There was a rather depressing study I read a few years back that proved that as we get older, our perception of time actually changes so that time really does feel like it is going much faster.
It isn’t a myth, and it should at least offer you some comfort to know that your perception isn’t caused by just wanting to do too much (though I’m sure it only adds to the stress!).
Now if you really want to see time go at warp speed, wait until you have kids. Or better yet, two at once! I feel like the last three years lasted just a few months, nuts.
marcus,
I’m totally with you. as you see i didn’t mention anything about $$$. It’s just TIME that bloody scares these day…
Dino,
I’ve heard these little monkeys conspire to press the fast-forward button on our lives and there’s nothing we can do about it…
i replaced time with like 200 rss feeds; i think the devil might have been involved somewhere in there.
i have the same thing, every so often something taps me on the shoulder and reminds me that i am 20 odd years from stuff that seemed to happen yesterday. like the moment i am in has broken a little and the time is speeding up. how did i suddenly get so far?
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that’s Kevin “Lovemarks” Roberts posting on his blog today about Eurostar. He’s on the same page as you Asi!
Yo, welcome to my world, mate. I’m feeling this since I was 16 (dead serious, no joke). You should just feel happy that it started now for you. Solution: none whatsoever. Just keep it coming…
Hi Asi
It’s so true – time is accelerated, full, precious. what i find wierd is I have two clocks, one which says ‘where did this year go?’, another which says ‘I can barely remember when it was cold outside’ (four weeks ago?)
I tend to find I have long years and short years (especially on the second clock) based on how much news stuff I do. Short years are ones where most of my experiences were quite similar to ones I’d had before. One view would be if you’ve seen it before you dont put down such a deep memory trace?
Anyone who has done something like starting college, moving to another country, starting a business etc. will remember what a long year that was. Its not quite enjoyment but it is a quality of something like aliveness.
It still fits dinos point that time flies by faster perceptually as you get older. But its partly I think how much new stuff you have to pad out your memories being the ‘seconds’ of remembered time?
Another point is mortality. Once you shift from an eternal present assumption to the sands of time slipping through your fingers then ‘wow that year just flew by’ takes on a different meaning?
happy monday
:J
great stuff – thanks you all for dropping by.
time is such a fascinating human concept which has so many layers or universal perceptions as well as individual, subjective experiences…
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