[whitecrow]

Time is not speeding up. That doesn't even make sense. First of all, time is not the linear tick-tock we commonly think. That is just a convention. Time is an aspect of multidimensional reality.

It's not even that events are happening faster. What is happening is that everything gets reported almost in real time, so we know infinitely more about what's going on in the world than people of, say, 100 years ago. Back then, if a war was declared or the Duke of Belgium died, you heard about it a month later, maybe.

Today, you can read about riots in Pakistan, war in the region of your choice, the latest bank failures, corporate crimes, earthquakes, medical breakthroughs, and efforts to exorcise Washington before breakfast. Nobody makes us read or watch all that stuff. Time's running along like always, but nowadays we feel like we have to stuff something into every single second. We think of quiet time as lost time. What malarkey.

There's another thing: relativity. When I was five, a year was 20% of my life - by definition a long time. Now, a year is one-point-six percent of my life or something like that, and it goes by fast. The year hasn't changed - I have.

There's a thread around here somewhere about life accelerating. Like I said, time isn't what we think it is. Yes, it does seem like a lot is happening. Yes, I have had a rapid succession of dramatic experiences over the last 8 years or so. But at the same time I feel myself slowing down, taking a deep breath, and groovin'.