close but not quite

Caught in the fast lane of a time highway, I feel time rushing past me like the landscape through a side window. Moving ever onwards, I fret I’ve missed an exit, the route to time better spent. There are exits that give me the chance to leave, yet I only take them as a brief meandering detour before speeding back into the flow of traffic that pulls... See more

Time, like the breath, is neither wasted nor spent. It simply is. The idea that we can waste time is rooted in the notion that time is something we own, something to be measured, traded, or lost.

But in truth, time is not ours to keep or give away. It is a river that flows, a stream that carries us, moment by moment, through life.

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“If standardized time was a fiction more or less driven by capitalism,” writes D’Erasmo, “it might be possible that [internet] atemporality is a fiction more or less driven by capitalism as well.”