Time Passing So Quickly
July 5th, 2018 at 8:48:58 PM permalink | |
zippyboy Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 2 Posts: 665 |
Absolutely. Not by accident, but I try to actually adhere to a routine. It's become such a well-worn boot-beaten path. Familiar, comfortable. Like, "I have to have my 3rd drink now or I won't be in bed in time". And more anti-social. I hate being around other people more and more. Slow drivers, demanding clients, neighbors all drive me crazy now. I can't believe I used to go out at night in my 20s, playing pool, flirting to get laid, driving around looking for friends, etc. Who cares anymore? |
July 5th, 2018 at 8:52:23 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Impatience. Very impatient is me. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 5th, 2018 at 9:09:07 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | It doesn't bother me as much as it used to. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
July 5th, 2018 at 9:10:28 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | That is why man invented the measurement of time, as a barrier between himself and his eventual demise. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
July 5th, 2018 at 9:18:05 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | Never really was very social. I learned when I had my food service trailer, I could stand anybody for 3 minutes to get them served and away. My neighbor is a 95 year old woman who lives alone, and could live with her daughter or someplace for old people. She just called to let us know she was headed to Laughlin for 3 days. She won't live with anybody until she is unable to walk with her walker anymore. After living alone, it's hard to live with anyone also. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
July 5th, 2018 at 9:55:41 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
Reminds me of a particular forum member. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
July 15th, 2018 at 2:00:55 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | I think about this subject every day. I notice the when I leave my office and close the door behind me, if I miss it and the door swings back open, the time it takes me to go back and close it again seems way longer than the time it took to close it the first time. This is because I'm totally aware of what I'm doing when I go back to close it. When I came out, my mind was in the kitchen thinking about what I would be doing there. Time passage is a mind thing. The more I'm preoccupied, the more lost in my thoughts, the more time flies by. There's a zen story about this. One monk is bragging to another monk that his master can do magic. The other monk says his master does magic too. When he eats, he eats. When he walks, he walks. In other words, his mind is empty of everything except the task at hand. There was a famous book by a yogi in the 70's called 'Be Here Now', about this subject. The whole purpose of the training is so you can always be aware of the present moment, which most of us are not. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 11th, 2018 at 1:21:39 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | They're right, you really do think about the past a lot more as you get older. By the time you're 60-65, there's just so much of it. I'm always putting the present in perspective with the past. Not a day goes by that I'm not floored by computer tech. Last night one of the hikers I follow was in MT doing a live Q&A from the trail, and I'm looking at her live and asking questions. In 1990 this would be scifi stuff. 1990 is day before yesterday to me, if I had a question I used my reference books or waited till I could go to the library. Now I have the worlds library right in front of me. Magic. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
January 20th, 2019 at 2:09:33 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | One of the reasons time seems to pass quickly is a day really isn't very long. Neither is a week. A month takes awhile, you can get a lot done in a month. I'm sitting here right now at 5pm thinking, holy crap just a minute ago it was 1pm. That's because an hour isn't really a very long time. It works like this. McD's introduced a 4 oz burger decades ago. 4 oz doesn't sound like much because it isn't much. So they cleverly called it a Quarter Pounder. Holy crap, people thought, that's huge! A quarter POUND? I can never eat all that. All because 'pound' conjurs up a whole different feeling than 'ounce' does. Works the same way with time. Jeez, you think, 2 HOURS have gone by. If you said 120 minutes, that doesn't seem like much. But the word 'hour', that seems like an eternity. When it's really not very long at all. Look how they imply in this commercial that it takes a 'special' person to even attempt to eat a Quarter Pounder. BTW, it loses 31% of it's 4 oz weight in cooking it. The weight of the cooked burger is 2.8 oz. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |