My perception of time
Oct. 10th, 2006 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphiasLis has been after me to post about this, about a conversation we had about a week and a half ago.
I made the comment, which she felt was interesting, that, as far as time goes, I can understand and feel only two measures of time: right now, and eternity. And I can't really understand or feel anything in between.
This makes it hard for me to plan things, since neither of those time periods is actually particularly conducive to daily life.
But, well, I can think of things as "past", and "future," and I can use a clock and a calendar to determine "fifteen minutes", "an hour", "a week", and "a year", but I have no instinctive understanding of those latter time periods. To me, ten years ago and last week feel about the same, and dinner and the grave feel approximately the same distance in the future.
This makes planning, and living, rather difficult.
Anyway, Lis thought that was interesting, and asked me to blog it. Some time in the past, which she states was a week and a half ago, but which I recall as "before now."
I made the comment, which she felt was interesting, that, as far as time goes, I can understand and feel only two measures of time: right now, and eternity. And I can't really understand or feel anything in between.
This makes it hard for me to plan things, since neither of those time periods is actually particularly conducive to daily life.
But, well, I can think of things as "past", and "future," and I can use a clock and a calendar to determine "fifteen minutes", "an hour", "a week", and "a year", but I have no instinctive understanding of those latter time periods. To me, ten years ago and last week feel about the same, and dinner and the grave feel approximately the same distance in the future.
This makes planning, and living, rather difficult.
Anyway, Lis thought that was interesting, and asked me to blog it. Some time in the past, which she states was a week and a half ago, but which I recall as "before now."
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Date: 2006-10-11 01:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-11 01:58 am (UTC)Planning is pointless from the point of view of "always-now"
Planning is pointless from the point of view of eternity.
Also, the eternal timescale leads to existential angst -- what point is there in anything if in a few millenia it will make no difference?
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Date: 2006-10-11 02:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-11 03:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-11 03:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-11 03:55 am (UTC)