Comments on: Last Day Of The Year http://equivocality.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fequivocality.com%2F2007%2F12%2F31%2Flast-day-of-the-year%2F%23comment-&seed_title=Last+Day+Of+The+Year To be equivocal is to truly live. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:06:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Jeff http://equivocality.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fequivocality.com%2F2007%2F12%2F31%2Flast-day-of-the-year%2F%23comment-17136&seed_title=Last+Day+Of+The+Year#comment-17136 Jeff Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:26:11 +0000 http://equivocality.com/2007/12/31/last-day-of-the-year/#comment-17136 According to Taoism, one is supposed to reduce daily and simplify one's life. I also wonder if I'm successful in this, time will seem to pass slower. According to Taoism, one is supposed to reduce daily and simplify one’s life. I also wonder if I’m successful in this, time will seem to pass slower.

]]> By: joe http://equivocality.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fequivocality.com%2F2007%2F12%2F31%2Flast-day-of-the-year%2F%23comment-17105&seed_title=Last+Day+Of+The+Year#comment-17105 joe Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:45:28 +0000 http://equivocality.com/2007/12/31/last-day-of-the-year/#comment-17105 There's logic in your reasoning. What still baffles me is, even when I'm not working and have plenty of spare time, I still feel time is passing faster than when I was young. There’s logic in your reasoning. What still baffles me is, even when I’m not working and have plenty of spare time, I still feel time is passing faster than when I was young.

]]> By: Jeff http://equivocality.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fequivocality.com%2F2007%2F12%2F31%2Flast-day-of-the-year%2F%23comment-17092&seed_title=Last+Day+Of+The+Year#comment-17092 Jeff Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:50:49 +0000 http://equivocality.com/2007/12/31/last-day-of-the-year/#comment-17092 @Uncle Joe — I've always suspected that time passes faster when we grow older because we take on more responsibilities, whether it's a house, children, pets, bills, or the like. Little by little, these things take up more and more of our time. A lot of the homeowners tell me that some nights, all they do is clean their house, or the weekends are spent painting the house, mowing the lawn, etc. Perhaps as we get more industrialized, it takes us longer to travel places as well, such as work. I would imagine that more dramatic changes make the time pass <em>faster</em> instead of slower, because there's less stability. That's certainly the case for me. When too many things happen, I have less time to reflect, and it feels like life is whizzing by. @xibee — I like your theory. It's like we lose touch of what's important as we grow older, which I imagine is a very common affliction in capitalist societies (even in bigger cities, considered rat races). We chase the dollar, we work longer hours, and our priorities get put in the wrong places. These things don't have any meaning or deeply affect us, yet they fill our lives more and more. @Uncle Joe — I’ve always suspected that time passes faster when we grow older because we take on more responsibilities, whether it’s a house, children, pets, bills, or the like. Little by little, these things take up more and more of our time. A lot of the homeowners tell me that some nights, all they do is clean their house, or the weekends are spent painting the house, mowing the lawn, etc. Perhaps as we get more industrialized, it takes us longer to travel places as well, such as work.

I would imagine that more dramatic changes make the time pass faster instead of slower, because there’s less stability. That’s certainly the case for me. When too many things happen, I have less time to reflect, and it feels like life is whizzing by.

@xibee — I like your theory. It’s like we lose touch of what’s important as we grow older, which I imagine is a very common affliction in capitalist societies (even in bigger cities, considered rat races). We chase the dollar, we work longer hours, and our priorities get put in the wrong places. These things don’t have any meaning or deeply affect us, yet they fill our lives more and more.

]]> By: xibee http://equivocality.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fequivocality.com%2F2007%2F12%2F31%2Flast-day-of-the-year%2F%23comment-17037&seed_title=Last+Day+Of+The+Year#comment-17037 xibee Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:04:21 +0000 http://equivocality.com/2007/12/31/last-day-of-the-year/#comment-17037 I think it passes faster because there is less deep psychological contact between us. We spend more time working at things we only half-like at best, and the personal interrelationships get lost in the flotsam of everyday maintenance. When you're young, you have more time for the things that actually matter, like sharing your deepest thoughts with your friends or your relationship person. I guess if you added children into the mix, that becomes a big blur of activity but you still get to share your deepest thoughts. Hopefully. For me, work is just eating up life. When I dream, it's in my past, in contact with those I loved and schooled and made art with. I think it passes faster because there is less deep psychological contact between us. We spend more time working at things we only half-like at best, and the personal interrelationships get lost in the flotsam of everyday maintenance. When you’re young, you have more time for the things that actually matter, like sharing your deepest thoughts with your friends or your relationship person. I guess if you added children into the mix, that becomes a big blur of activity but you still get to share your deepest thoughts. Hopefully.

For me, work is just eating up life. When I dream, it’s in my past, in contact with those I loved and schooled and made art with.

]]> By: joe http://equivocality.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fequivocality.com%2F2007%2F12%2F31%2Flast-day-of-the-year%2F%23comment-17019&seed_title=Last+Day+Of+The+Year#comment-17019 joe Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:12:54 +0000 http://equivocality.com/2007/12/31/last-day-of-the-year/#comment-17019 Time does seem to pass faster, the older you get. Could it be because of the fact that more dramatic physical and mental changes take place between infancy and marriage, and thereafter, there are less dramatic events to stay in the memory? I wonder. Time does seem to pass faster, the older you get. Could it be because of the fact that more dramatic physical and mental changes take place between infancy and marriage, and thereafter, there are less dramatic events to stay in the memory? I wonder.

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