Brian b.1969
Time conciousness
I think of 1969 – 1978 as an eternity not 10 years
I think of 1979 – 1988 as half an eternity
I think of 1989 – 1999 as quarter eternity about 10 years
i think of 1999 – 2011 as about about 5 years it has whizzed by so fast.
The younger I was the slower time ticked. The older I get the faster it goes. A week now seems like 2 days. Here I compare what is 7 days on the calendar to a time period I think it is, 7 full days & nights against what it actually seemed, 2 days, I got little done and my in tray grew in height and my to do list grew even though I did things… but I did so many things .. I don’t see them as a series of events but a motion blur.
How much of this is email / IT / pace of the world (stop I want to get of the merry-go-round) How much is this due to growing old and wasting time when I was young when I could have been doing more. 🙂
Its my personal concept of time past & time present. But at this rate in a few years a week will be a day, a year will be a season and I will have lots to do and no f’ing time left to do it.
Its the weekend, more and more work impacts my weekend and I am not a shift worker. I take Fridays off office duty to do a radio show. This week I did a day at home to avoid travel and I did 1 day out of the office. Which means I did 2 office days and next week I play catch up on top of dealing with all of next weeks new issues as they arise.
At the moment I am doing some overdue credit control and some large outstanding payments are over 12 months due. I think this is an unusual situation but to think of it in terms of time, I think 13 months to be chasing payment is a long time but it seems like the work was only done a few months back (it wasn’t).
Should I be trying to alter this concept of time, slow things down? coz I sure can’t imagine that speeding things up will help my situation. I have read that as we get older our brain function switches from fast at learning to deeper understanding. I would have to agree, but pitted against the law of accelerating returns / Moore’s law etc. and this human brain getting older I think I should have a planned exit from the arms race that is the global thermonuclear war information overload merry-go-round, I would rather that exit, than be thrown off the merry-go-round to a crash landing.
What will be my exit – from this rat race
That’s great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane –
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn –
world serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs. Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn’t coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but it’ll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its
own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the
reverent in the right – right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.