Let’s face it. It’s all in our heads only.
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Thanksgiving is behind us. It’s already December. Soon year 2022 will be over. Time flies scaringly fast, doesn’t it?
Really?
We all know that time passes at an equal pace. There is no short one minute nor long minute. Then why do we use such an irrational expression as “time flies fast”?
If you look back the past three years since the world experienced the COVID-19 pandemic, do you feel that each year, 2020, 2021, and 2022, has passed at the same rate? Maybe not.
Depending upon what you accomplished or didn’t accomplish, what happened or didn’t happen, the length of each year seems to be so different.
As for me, year 2021 seems to have been as short as only a couple of months. I can’t quite recall what I did that year, that’s mainly because I didn’t travel by plane at all.
I had to go back the calendar, tracing all the online classes, meetings, and events that hosted or attended, in order to convince me that 2021 was actually the whole year.
My inclination is to blindly follow my perception where time is elastic like a rubber band. Hence words like “time flies fast” slips. But let’s not. Let’s acknowledge that elasticity is happening only in our heads. Let’s face the existential reality.
The nature has been marking the passage of time on a constant pace. (I’m not a physicist and General Relativity is beyond my comprehension.) A day in December is no different than a day in January or a sunny day in August in terms of length.
There are still 27 days left this December. We can get a lot of things done in 27 days. Let’s not give our mind an excuse to let the time slip by.