How to Slow Down Time to Make Your Life Feel Deeper and Fulfilling

Ahsan Chaudhry
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readJul 10, 2023

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Where’d the 15 years gone?

It’s your 25th birthday. You wake up that day and make big plans for the future. You celebrate your special day with your friends and family. Life seems abundant and long. You feel like you have a long journey ahead of you.

With this in mind, you go to bed late.

The next day you wake up and you are 40.

Where have those 15 years gone? They went past like a flash of light. Time is running faster than water flows from an open tap. It flows even faster if you don’t pay attention and are always obsessed with the future.

Time has always been running faster even before the humans invented internet. After the internet, it just went on steroids. You lose time every time you indulge yourself online for anything.

Here’s how you can feel time, make it slow deliberately.

Memories are time

That seems absurd but it works. The more memories you have for any event, day, week, month or year the longer it feels. Why?

To create memories your brain has to work harder. When you are learning new things you have to be present in the moment. Your brain is working to…

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Ahsan Chaudhry
ILLUMINATION

I Love to write about life, health and investment. Twitter: @ahsan38, Free Newsletter: https://thehappyminded.substack.com/