We are all time travellers
Our relationship with time.
We are all time travellers
Regret is a time machine to the past.
Worry is a time machine to the future.
Gratitude is a time machine to the present.
Andrea Gibson • You Better Be Lightning
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.
Our language... See more
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.
Our language... See more
Tijn Tjoelker on Substack
This notion of time as an “economic resource” is exactly what vibing aims to break away from... time is not an empty thing we have to fill but a living thing that we must shape. Time changes. Because the world changes, and we change with it. To vibe is to shape time into pleasure, to mold it into something that feels soft and tastes sw
eet.
mary retta • close but not quite
Possible guiding poem candidate?
Shape our time?
We belong to times far more than we belong to places. We just don’t realize it because we can’t travel in time and can never see our time from the perspective of another.
Venkatesh Raosubstack.comFeels paradoxical but idk there's something here that makes me feel like it belongs here
Imagine that the earth we are experiencing now is like a star.
Many of the stars we see have already died.
What we experience as that guiding bright beauty,
is the residue of something time and the eye has not caught up with.
If the apocalypse already happened,
then the talk of the end of the world is a distraction from the world that already ended.
T... See more
Many of the stars we see have already died.
What we experience as that guiding bright beauty,
is the residue of something time and the eye has not caught up with.
If the apocalypse already happened,
then the talk of the end of the world is a distraction from the world that already ended.
T... See more
Allegra Preuss • The Water in the Wood
She quotes Viktor Shklovsky: “habitualization devours work, clothes, furniture, one's wife, and the fear of war... and art exists so that one may recover the sensation of life.” Then she goes on: “ the trick in writing/life... is to figure out how to import a chunk of the past into the present, so your present self can feel all the things you’ve... See more
#198: Trying to see something
Calendars, on the other hand, cover the entire spectrum of time. Past, present and future. They are the closest thing we have to a time machine. Calendars allow us to travel forward in time and see the future. More importantly, they allow us to change the future.
julian • Multi-Layered Calendars
The past doesn't exist - don't get stuck in it
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