Time – there’s never enough of it, especially at this time of year as we dash around looking for gifts that won’t further break the bank, and juggle social engagements.
But actually it’s all relative – I mean, my very kind bank manager in the UK called me today to help me out with a problem but forgot about the 8 hour time difference and that it was 3am my time. Apologies to him if I sounded like a gibbering idiot. From his point of view it was just another busy afternoon in the old coastal town of Poole in Dorset – the high street packed with shoppers bundled up against the freezing cold.
A friend of mine just went home to Sydney for the holidays and where he is now, it’s already tomorrow – they are 19 hours ahead of Los Angeles, where I am. When his plane was in the air I was trying to figure out what time it was for him but I gave up.
My point, if there is one here, is that we’re all living out our lives all the time, whatever time is, and it boggles my mind sometimes to think about it, about this never sleeping planet.
And if we believe in the idea of parallel universes, it’s even more brain busting – I just hope it doesn’t mean my bank manager is waking me up 3am somewhere else in the universe.
So if the Holiday Season starts to make you feel crazy because you feel you’re running out of time, don’t worry, there’s plenty of it – it’s just somewhere else.
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Hilarious.
I'm relieved to discover this! Now, how do I go there to get it?
My father once told me an interesting theory he read that we're not going crazy... time itself really is getting shorter. But because we are moving along with it and the change it so subtle, we cannot perceive the actual change ourselves.
Now wouldn't that be something if it were true... then maybe we will be justified in saying that there really aren't enough hours in the day to do get everything done!
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