Per Second
February 13th, 2008
If time is relative, then to what does it relate? I don’t feel like it relates to me. It seems to me to be recursively relative. I’m very near the end of this day which is near the middle of my probable life and yet I’m sitting in front of an LCD wasting whatever time is relatively at hand. Hours pass like hours and as I contemplate the rest it sort of feels like stasis. Yet tomorrow morning I’ll be at the start of my day and minutes will race by and I will be franticly attending to all the things that need to get going and that guy in front of me will inevitably be going too goddamn slow! Why won’t he go faster - I … must … go … fass … ter! Then work will go up and down, grinding thru meetings, rushing to finish projects - bleh. It’s up and down and all over and it correlates to rhythms that ebb and flow predictably at random. Or randomly in a predictable way. Plan for retirement by giving up time now so you can have it later - just don’t get hit by a Brinks truck. Hurry up and get to the good parts but don’t go too fast and miss the good parts.
The trite idiom says Time is Money, but more importantly, money makes time irrelevant. Rich people who care overmuch about time are either stupid or terminally ill. If you gots the cash, you can afford to slow down, take it easy, do what you want when you want. Things will go at the rate which you choose. So get lots of money. Which means you gotta be in the right place at the right time, time the market, make time, manage your time and be on time.
When we were kids a week lasted - I dunno: a really long time. I can even remember as a kid, all the things that could happen in a single day. A day could roll on and scramble itself up and turn out one way and then resolve into something else. I could play with toys, run around, play with friends, eat meals (there were like, 8 meals in a day), take a nap, watch TV, , ride a big-wheel, read a book, take a bath, play a game and then finally end it in bed. All kinds of crazy shit could happen in a day and yet I know I was only awake for maybe 12 hours. Time is relative to where you are in it and so that makes time recursively relative to itself which is really friggin annoying…

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