Slowing Down the Clock: Regaining Our Perception of Time

I’m sitting at my desk at work looking over some papers at around 3:30 PM. As I go through the papers while in a a flow state, I get through a lot of my work with joy. I get through some of those papers and look up at the clock only to realize it’s 7:00 PM. To be frank, it felt only like 1 hour but for some reason, seven times that amount actually flew by. Now most of us would LOVE to be in a type of scenario where what you’re doing, whether it’s related to your career, relationships, or your health, that no matter how much time goes by, you enjoy doing those activities. The truth is, I didn’t feel that way. On top of the desire for work-life balance, I wanted something even more, time. If I were to go back 10 years, those three and a half hours would feel exactly as long as the actual time that has passed, but nowadays it feel shorter. Regardless of whether I’m wasting my time scrolling social media, or if I had an actual productive work day, it all feels the same on a temporal level. I used to feel that I had all the time in the world, but now I feel like time is becoming more an more elusive, escaping my every attempt to grasp and hold onto it. Time is relative mentally and physically. But I’d rather it feel longer mentally, and in a good way, rather then physically in a good way. The latter means that it would take me longer to enjoy what I have little time to enjoy biologically. Could I be having a quarter-life crisis? Who knows… Here are some things I have started doing to address my feelings towards the elusiveness of time. <a href="https://medium.com/@soroushtorkian/slowing-down-the-clock-regaining-our-perception-of-time-7da77f8afcc5">Click Here</a>