I've always been taught by others to think about time as a sausage, but in fact, it is a donut. whatever it is, we might think that we consume time on a daily basis, but in fact, it is time that consume us.
time has always been thought of as a linear thing, where one thing happens and is followed by other things. we call them the past, the present, and the future, depending on where we're standing. but recently, reading science fiction has really put my old perception of time to test. if everything is open to interpretation, then looking at time chronologically isn't the only way to do. I can cut them into half and sticking one end to the other. I can tear them apart then paste them together in whatever way that I want. and we've always been taught that there is a start, a middle, and an end, but in reality, it's not always in that order. and sometimes there is no such thing as starts, middles, or ends. it's this continuity and flow of time that passes us by.
we like to believe that we're getting somewhere, and we have reasons for believing so. imagine walking around a circular path covered by walls. we think we're getting somewhere, and the walls do change throughout the course of time, however, we're still stuck within ourselves, no matter where we go. getting somewhere is an illusion. time is a donut, but society made us believe that it's a sausage. it's faith in progress that brings the concept of "to-do list" to life. at the end of the day, it's faith in progress that keeps the economy going. and the economy is there to bring us better things as it promises, based on human's psyche of what we want and not what we need.
you've spent enough time preparing to live, when are you going to actually live?
you've spent enough time on secondary tasks, when are you going to focus on the primary one?
you've spent enough time doing, when are you going to be?
whether time is a dount or a sausage, we also like to think that we consume time. it's true that you eat the donut and the sausage, but in the course of consuming the donut and the sausage, your body also exerts energy to break those thing down before they can even be useful. I agree that it is a net gain, and that's why we consume time instead of it consuming us. however, there's going to be an extent where we stop being able to consume it, and the donut of time is the thing that consume us all.
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