How is your relationship with time generally?

Generally relative in theory.

Generally, me and time are in a fight. It keeps wanting to go faster and I keep wanting it to go slower. You can make a good guess as to who is winning.

We’re never in sync. Somehow “Party starts at 9pm” translates into me showing up around 11pm. It’s weird.

It is true that when you’re having fun time seems to fly by. Conversely it seems to drag on when things are not so good.Probably natures way of keeping us on our toes I guess.

its like when i make exams they go too fast but when i am learning hells slow

Pretty damn good. I haven’t worn a wristwatch in 20 years and I’m still early more times than not and rarely ever late. I fill out a blank calendar everyday and strive to have at least one thing to put in there that says to me my life was really worth living. So far, so good.

So far we’ve just been dating. No commitments.

I have this problem I call 90–10 Syndrome. I will do 90% of the work on a project ahead of time then I’ll go into heavy-duty procrastination mode and barely squeak by on the finishing touches.

Generally time slows down during school for me, then speeds up during the night and I wake up exhausted. It’s a vicious cycle that leaves me dreading school, and making my marks go down because I don’t have the energy to try.

See Einstein’s Dreams—a wonderful little book on the subject of time.

No matter how hard I try, I can’t nail it down.

Time is speeding up.

I am slowing down.

@ChazMaz Ain’t it the truth!

Respectful but not servile. Time and I are sort of friendly adversaries. I try to give it some space, and I think it tries to do the same for me.

Having to be somewhere by a certain time always causes me stress. The more absolute it is (opera curtain, flight departure), the more stress, and the more compulsive I get about allowing enough time. These days I make as few time-specific dates as I can get away with—one of the reasons I am so happy in retirement. Doing something by a certain time doesn’t bother me, but being somewhere does.

I understand time as change. I understand chronos as clock time, measured in ticks, and kairos as filled time, measured in experience; and I try to make kairos my standard, not chronos. This is not so easy. I’ve had this notion in my head for 40 years and am still working on it.

I would like to understand eternity in relation to time as stillness in relation to change, the way Joseph Campbell explains it, but that could take me another ten or twenty years of thinking about things.