Meditation for December 4th
Time
I may or may not have done a meditation on this before, but if I did, it is important enough to repeat.
As you get older, time goes by faster and faster. This is mainly because you know exactly how long a given period of time takes, so it seems to go faster. You might think that time is consistent, but you forget that we actually know magic.
There are ways to slow time down.
Don’t look at your phone.
All your phone does is suck you in, and next thing you know, a year has gone by, according to your Facebook memory reminder.
Don’t read books.
Reading takes you out of your mind and into the world in the book. Sometimes, a whole day will fly by unlived if the book is excellent.t
Don’t have any way of telling time.
Knowing what time it is will create uneven chunks of time. Sometimes it takes forever for a minute to go by, and other times an hour takes a minute.
Don’t use a microwave.
We all have to eat, but watching a timer count down the time till your pizza bagel is done will take a pepperoni chunk of time away from you.
In fact, other than watching a pot of water boil, most recipes state times, and knowing times will speed things up. Don’t cook with a recipe. Pull stuff out of the oven or off the stove by vibe only.
Don’t listen to music.
Most pop songs clock in at three and a half minutes, meaning that the songs will give you a measure of time. Listen to a long song, like a whole symphony, so it is hard to tell the passage of time. The less you know the music, the slower it will go. Most orchestrated music and jazz don’t repeat themselves over and over again like pop music, so you can’t start predicting the next part of the song, and therefore be aware of the time.
No TV.
Want just to be born and then die? Watch a lot of TV.
Blank wall and no sound.
If you stare at a blank wall and can’t hear anything, you will slow time down almost to a standstill. If you can block out the outside world so that you don’t even know what day it is, this will guarantee the complete freezing of time. Do this in a room with no windows, so the sun and moon don’t speed up your life to die.
Don’t keep a schedule.
The minute you have to do something at a specific time is the minute you become time’s slave. Keep your entire day open for nothing. You might have to make a sacrifice and not have a job, because jobs are on clocks, and once you start craving the weekend, you are doomed to have time go by too fast.
Don’t have relationships.
Sharing your life with another person always speeds life up. Once you break up and your heart is ripped open, time will slow down because pain slows time down. Whatever you can, stay in constant pain so that time will pace a glacier. I have no idea why people want to rush to heal just to be happy and have life fly by.
God, please, don’t have kids.
Kids age, so time is acknowledged, and kids grow up super fast. More kids mean time goes by. Faster, plus the kids ruin other people’s sense of time. Don’t let me know you have kids, I don’t need my life to fly by my face any faster.
Prayer
Hi, God?
Question.
Why is life so short?
And even if we make it to a hundred,
The first third is figuring things out,
The middle third is “earning a living”,
Because we didn’t just get forced to live,
We have to earn it too,
And the last third, knowing we are going to die any minute.
So what was the point?
Why couldn’t we have just started in heaven in the first place?
Instead of figuring it out here?
I really need to pass a bunch of tests
To make it to the other side?
All the while,
might I perish for no good reason at all?
Or choose to perish myself?
Seems fucking stupid.
Amen
Craft
One of the steps above that was forgotten is the greatest time speeder-upper of all: multitasking. Don’t do that. Do one task at a time and do not rush. If you are cleaning your room, clean it slowly. Consider each item you pick up, and neatly and with great effort, fold your clothes and put them away. Sweep slowly and thoroughly, for the floor will need sweeping again. Don’t do anything at the same time. Don’t sweep and pick up clothes. Just do one or the other.
You might say, I have to multitask, I have ADHD! Sadly, ADHD is only real if you believe that time is real, and time isn’t real, so you can relax.
Goal
Stop letting time get away from you. You’re only here for such a short time, so why are you wasting minutes? Slow it down by doing nothing.