Does time really sit still?

“The worst thing about being 80 is that you still want to say yes to everything, but the world moves without asking. The old fire in your heart still tells you to do this and that, but your body says we already did it. Also, nothing surprises you. It sounds like a luxury but it’s not, and also you’ve run out of illusions. People treat you like either you’ve solved something or you’ve lost something, and you haven’t. You see life repeating itself everywhere.

The really worst part about being 80 is that you find, at last, you’ve got an understanding of something that might have altered everything in the past, had it come at a time when something could still be altered. When you’re young you think that time moves forward. At 80 you know that it doesn’t; it stands still. We’re the ones that move.”

— Bob Dylan

If we are the ones moving so fast, it would explain why time feels so fast, too. It’s a difficult habit to break. But it is possible to move slower. If time is constant then our preception of it is what changes.

[Sorry about the blog going off the rails this week. Everything should be back in order. On to our regularly scheduled program.]