The older you get the faster time moves. It all has to do with frame of reference. The best example I can give is this: When you are four years old, to be eight years old is to double your life. Your frame of reference for the next four years is immense. Whereas to a 28 year old, 32 is not that far around the corner. Your perception of time changes, and as it changes it begins to move faster. Have you noticed days go by quicker? Years fly by?
I asked my dad once, "Hey dad, you know how the older you get the faster time moves?"
"Yeah?"
"Well I need to figure out a way to stop that."
"Well you have to change your perception. Stop thinking about the future and the past, and the way you perceive time will change."
So I have been on this journey to discover what it means to live in a single moment, if you have read past posts. To stop looking so far ahead that I miss half of my life. What I have discovered is that when I successfully pull this off, time moves slower. When I succeed I realize that my ability to gauge how much time has gone by, is completely wrong. My life moves slower. I like that. I like it a lot.
There are so many beautiful things to living in a moment. When you are driving towards looming black clouds that are dropping water from the sky... When those same clouds are generating electricity that heats the air up to five times the heat of the sun, which creates a sonic boom of thunder... When you are on a sphere traveling 66,000 miles an hour, around a burning ball of fire... Getting stopped at a red light, really doesn't seem like that big a deal. That person who cuts you off isn't really worth the attention. Each day becomes far from ordinary, and moments... moments become eternal.
Live in the moment. The future will take care of itself.
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i love this! i absolutely agree with everything you say. except i find myself always looking towards the future and not focusing on the present. IT IS SO HARD!! i wish i could stop worrying about everything and just be still and know that god has made this day for everyone, for every person including me! So i should appreciate all of it not just parts.
So, I think you've probably read in my blog that I have extreme anxiety issues, and they stem from anticipating and worrying about the next moment. Really, they stem from a control issue and the fear of being alone, but that's a story for a different day. Before my grandpa died a month ago he was really sick. It wasn't one of those lovely die in your sleep deaths. It gave me a lot of time to pray that God would do just what you blogged on. Those were my last moments with him, and I wanted to be fully present. God knew this, and took away my anxiety for about two months. Heres a quote I love regarding the topic, "Time is a relentless river. It rages on, a respecter of no one. And this, this is the only way to slow time: When I fully enter time's swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of my full attention." -Ann Voskamp
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