Time Passing So Quickly

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July 5th, 2018 at 8:48:58 PM permalink
zippyboy
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Quote: Evenbob
A big killer for me is routines.
The older I get, the more into
routines I am. Cook at the same
time, eat, go to bed, go to sleep,
get up, all at the same time every
day.

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
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Quote: zippyboy
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And more anti-social. I hate being around other people more and more.


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
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Quote: Evenbob
Every day, every single day, after
I'm up for awhile, I say "Holy Crap!
I've been up 3 hours already?" or
4 hours, or whatever. I've got nothing
done yet! Days fly by and I do not
remember it being like that.
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
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Quote: kenarman
My theory about time speeding up as you get older is that your internal time clock is based on your life span.
That is why man invented the measurement of time, as a barrier between himself and his eventual demise.
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July 5th, 2018 at 9:18:05 PM permalink
petroglyph
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Quote: zippyboy
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?
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
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Quote: Evenbob
There was a guy in the army in the book
MASH, which the TV series is made from.
To make life last longer, he was angry
and unhappy all the time at everything.


Reminds me of a particular forum member.
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July 15th, 2018 at 2:00:55 PM permalink
Evenbob
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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
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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
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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.
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