Meditation for December 4th, 2016
Time
I may or may not have done a meditation on this before, but if I did, it is important enough to repeat.
As you get older, time goes by faster and faster. This is mostly because you know exactly how long a measurement of time takes, so it seems to go faster.
There are ways to slow time down.
Don’t look at your phone.
All your phone does is suck you in and next thing you know a year has gone by according to your Facebook’s memory reminder.
Don’t read books.
Reading takes you out of your mind and into the world in the book. Sometimes a whole day will fly by unlived if the book is really good.
Don’t have any way of telling time.
Knowing what time it is will create uneven chunks of time. Sometimes it takes forever for a minute to go by and other times an hour takes a minute.
Don’t use a microwave.
We all have to eat, but watching a timer count down the time till your pizza bagel is done will take a pepperoni chunk of time away from you.
Don’t listen to music.
Most pop songs clock in at three and a half minutes, meaning that the songs will give you a measure of time. Listen to a long song, like a full symphony, that way it is hard to tell time’s journey. The less you know the music the more time will slow down.
No TV.
Want to just be born and then die? Watch a lot of TV.
Blank wall and no sound.
If you stare at a blank wall and you can’t hear anything, then you will slow time down to an almost standstill. If you can block out the outside world to not even know what day it is, this will guarantee the completed freezing of time.
Don’t keep a schedule.
The minute you have to do something at a certain time is the minute you become time’s slave. Keep your entire day open for nothing.
Don’t have relationships.
Sharing your life with another person always speeds life up. Once you break up and your heart is ripped open, time will slow down because pain slows time down.
God, please, don’t have kids.
Kids age so therefore time is acknowledged and kids grow up super fast. More kids mean the faster the time goes by. Plus the kids ruin other people’s sense of time.