Timeframes

May 31, 2006 3:23pm

I have a hard time remembering what age I am. I spent a few minutes today figuring it out using mathematics and my knowledge of the current year and that of which I was born and arrived at 27. But if asked, I immediately chime “28” and believe it.

I’d like to do a lifelong study on my own life to determine how I was aware of time. I recall, distinctively, that around 13 I longed to be 8 again and at 16 I felt as if I only had two good years left, tops. Unfortunately, my life is already 25% completed (roughly, or more) and so that study will have to wait for my next lifetime. I also spent some time today contemplating the following:

If I could have an 8 day week, once per month (lunar, not Gregorian) and on the 8th day I would go back in time and spend a week in each of my previous years. So the first time I’d spend a week of one of the first few months in my life, the second time a week when I was 1, the next a week when I was 2, and so on and so etc. Attempting to remember various times in my life was difficult, and I primarily gravitated to a few key times in my teenage years. Resulting theory: There are a handful of definitive moments in life that build the fence posts of your phsychological makeup, and the rest are just barbed wires along the way.

So I wonder who’s lives I’ve been a fence post in, and would anyone care to find out they only served as an electric impulse along the fence line of my life’s ranch?

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bob 3 Jun 2006

so does the fence come back to where it all started, like a cage, in the end?

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bob 7 Jun 2006

that was a question. just so you know. they normally require an answer.

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nathan 7 Jun 2006

Yeah I don’t know – I hadn’t thought about it that far…it’s not important, I don’t think, that the fence needs to be closed or otherwise, all that’s the analogy refers to is the idea that some moments are the fence posts, in that as they’re the most important parts, they’re keeping up the rest of the wires.

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