Wednesday, October 15, 2008

A Selfish Day

Does anyone else ever have those days that seem to take up not only the amount of time it has been allotted, but also the next two days allowance of time? You know, the days that seem to go on and on and so much seems to happen that not only can you not remember what you ate for breakfast* (which in reality, isn’t that abnormal) but you can’t really remember that you ate breakfast, or lunch for that matter. In fact, when experiencing one of these days, many common traditions such as breakfast and dinner are just theories and legends that seem to have become mysterious occurrences that can almost be considered alien. Of course you did eat breakfast and lunch and they were probably moderately to decently enjoyable.
But how does this day, who I guess is a bully in the world of days that takes the other day’s proverbial lunch money* (lunch money = time, kind of a stretch but acceptable nonetheless), find a way to sneak all of this extra time in and make us believe that our minds are only playing tricks on us because it isn’t possible that one day took the time of three, “I mean the clock ticked just as fast as it did yesterday right?” Well I have a theory behind this supernatural occurrence and its going to be a little out there, but be patient and open-minded and hopefully I can go in enough circles to sound intelligent to make you believe I have a well-supported idea.
So here it goes, a jump into the proverbial rabbit hole* (the word proverbial is probably one of my favorite words so I’ll reasonably use it a lot). So when reflecting on the day, I realized that yes, there was definitely more time in that day than most days normally possess. And how this can happen can best be related to watching a movie in fast forward. The spectator of this movie knows that the movie is moving faster than normal but the characters in the movie have no idea. As far as they’re concerned, time is moving the same speed as normal and nothing is out of the ordinary. It would be like watching all three Lord of the Rings movies in fast forward, which would probably be smarter than watching them at normal speed. This way you have shoved what should have taken about 9 hours into the span of about 3, while the characters of these movies have lived 9 hours, you have only lived three.
…TBC

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