The Relativity of Time
/begin asymmetrical pondering
You know, reflecting back on things and life I had a realization concerning the relative nature of time. Something I kinda always just took for granted and never really thought about until now.
Being completely relative to every individual, I’ve found in my experience that time goes REALLY fast when you’re having fun or are busy doing something. But in the long run retrospect, that period of time (for example 6 months to a year) that you were having lots of fun and were busy seems like a longer period of time then it actually was
I find the exact opposite is true too. When I have nothing to do but lay around, time goes REAL slow (as I’m sure many experience in school), but looking back I can’t remember anything valuable I did and it seems like the period came and went in the blink of an eye
Weird, I guess its just interesting to see how the majority of the world views “time”. As something thats all encompassing, this inevitabe box that is always there, the thing that dictactes the majority of peoples lives and even their life span. Sometimes I wonder how the world would be different if this concept of time wasn’t fused into everyone’s brain in the same context as it is today.
I sometimes wonder who was the first to create this form of measurement, after all thats all it is, a tool for measurement. I wonder if you take the “Think outside the box” concept and apply it to “Time” what you would get and how retaining that thinking over time would change your life. Hrm.
/end asymmetrical pondering
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Posted on March 9, 2006
Filed Under Daily Thoughts, Ranting
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