Part 2 – How to fight against Time
What does it mean to be in the present? This question has plagued me for years and I truly don’t think I will ever learn what it really means. Maybe it is meditation, maybe it is accepting a situation for what it is, maybe it is focusing on only one thought and what is in front of you. I don’t know per se, but I have vivid idealizations sometimes of becoming a monk or asking one, what does it mean?
Today I am going to talk about my version – it may not be right but hopefully it inspires a conversation.
To me time is ever flowing, ups and downs, and relative to where you are standing. Meaning you can change your environment, and therefore change your timeline.
There’s many timelines happening right now in parallel, maybe for yourself.
For me it is work, individual friendship, my gym journey, social media presence, relationship with my family, and I can even say my paused game in Cyberpunk 2077 (haven’t done Embers yet…). Essentially these are all timelines. They live on their own, have their schedule, and you can make an argument that they don’t affect each other. They affect me, who sits at the center, but in a way they’re parallel universes that I, as an individual, experience. Sometimes all at once, or each one individually.
I can pretty much shift my day, and give attention to each thing. And thus it goes back to TIME. Time is a currency, it is itself limited, but perspectively, it is relative to the user.
Of course it feels as if there is a main timeline brushing against myself – the human timeline that affects everything I do. But if you pause for a second, and ignore that timeline; I started realizing there was really only one that mattered: mine.
Read more in Part 3.