⚪Time Travel⚫

How it’s possible

When I was little (under 12), and I was in a rush to get somewhere, I would just look at my watch while I walked. I would stare at it. Counting every second. Feeling every moment fade away while I continued to not be at my destination. Until suddenly I was there.

Of course this is not “time travel”. And yet it sort of is in its own unique way. It’s all about the perception of time while moving in space. Before you blaze through that last sentence, let me break it down because it’s the key: perception while moving. Time is passing, and so is space. And to get from A to B the fastest, the obvious approach is to move faster, but my backwards brain figured “ what if I just slow down time instead? “

Time (Now)

Time is a valuable thing, watch it fly by as the pendulum swings

Admittedly, I have no idea if this made me move faster at all or not. I just moved. I moved as fast as I could of course, but in the meantime I saw the stupid clock merrily tick life away as if it were singing Linkin Park. Yet at some point two things happened: 1) My Hispanic genes took over and said “fuck it, I’ll get there when I get there”, 2) I could have sworn the damn thing began ticking more slowly. We’re not here to talk about point 1 (“not today anyway”), but have you ever experienced point 2?

Seriously, if you haven’t, try it.

Many people will just blankly stare at their watch for a while. Desperately waiting for this…