The fluidity of time
By Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
Centralia, Missouri
March 19, 2016 6:41pm CST
I swear time flies when you don't want it too, and crawls when you do. My days off ALWAYS seem to just fly past, while work days do not. I bet I am not the only one that notices that. It makes me wonder just how much perspective affects actual time. I know a clock, a second, a minute, an hour, are finite measurements. But is time really finite?
It makes you wonder doesn't it.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
20 Mar 16
Time will end when eternity begins for each of us.
I have noticed that myself more than once - many times. Since I've been retired it seems days are speeding by and slowing down. This past week went so slow I kept wondering when Saturday would get here. It finally did and now it's almost over.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
20 Mar 16
I feel the same way about my weekends, which start tonight at 5
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
20 Mar 16
@Jessicalynnt Enjoy your weekend. I've had a very long week-end so far and I'm enjoying it for the most part, especially the part where I don't need to set an alarm clock. Retirement is great!
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
20 Mar 16
@just4him I do look forward to that, but hopefully before retirement, if he gets military the goal is to get to where i only work part time, then not at all
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
20 Mar 16
lol, I am not convinced it does. I wonder if the restraints we place on it are our attempt to keep track of it and measure it because it appears we can, but perhaps that is an illusion
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@inertia4 (27978)
• United States
20 Mar 16
@Jessicalynnt That is one thing we cannot do is control time. Or what we perceive to be time. It just happens. The said and nights go on as they always did. I don't think there is a different speed for good times and bad. It just feels that way to us.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
20 Mar 16
@inertia4 I think time itself doesn't change, but I also think it doesn't work like we think it does. we just measure what we think is correct, but it's less one directional and really multidimensional, so there might be speeds, dunno
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
20 Mar 16
Time flies when you spend it happily and usefully and vice versa.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
20 Mar 16
definitely, and when you are bored, time crawls
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@rebelann (117199)
• El Paso, Texas
20 Mar 16
Now that I’m retired I’ve realized that the reason time always crawled when I was at work is because I kept looking at the time, if you remove all time pieces from the work place and simply keep working you’ll find that time doesn’t crawl as badly ….. same thing about waitin for that pot o water to boil.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
20 Mar 16
lol, I cant. Certain things have to be done at certain times.
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@rebelann (117199)
• El Paso, Texas
20 Mar 16
I am lucky then, the only thing that has a similarity to a schedule is letting miss Ally out to do her stuff and feeding her, she’d never let me sleep too long if she needed to go or got hungry @Jessicalynnt
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
20 Mar 16
oh good one, yeah, that gloopy stuff..... or when they have you bite on that piece of plastic and hold still for an xray
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
20 Mar 16
@JudyEv yeah the first is gross, that part is always painful
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@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Mar 16
@Jessicalynnt The plastic is worse. They make you bite down hard until you're sure it must be cutting your gum.
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@shubhu3 (36463)
• New Delhi, India
20 Mar 16
Hmm well it's like whatever we have in the present we should just make the most out of it and enjoy it to the core reason being you are right time is something which seems to be fleeting away as quickly as it can and so we should just live in the moment in a way like there is no tomorrow.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
20 Mar 16
but right now I would rather it BE tomorrow, I'd still be zzzzing.
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Have a sound sleep.
@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
20 Mar 16
Time always passes by way to fast when you are having fun or don't want it to.
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@TypicalRussian (747)
• Budennovsk, Russian Federation
20 Mar 16
I think the more enjoyment you get - the quicker the time flies by
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
20 Mar 16
perhaps, I am not convinced everything will, I mean they say the everything has been around billions of years, so who knows.
