There was a time when I was welcomed into private residences, riverboats, political offices, hospitals, monasteries, convents, schools, prison holdover cells, and other surprising places. On any given day, I might visit many customers in up to 20 locations throughout the city.
As I speak with one customer, she unsolicitedly reveals that she feels the day is creeping along. She can not wait for it to end, and wonders if it ever will. When that conversation comes up at one location, it also comes up in many others. If one says "going slowly," they all do. It would happen the same way on a day that the perception was that the day was "speeding by."
That observation was always curious and satisfying to me. Encased as we all are in bodies with uniquely tuned senses, it is exciting to discover that we are sometimes allowed synchronous connections over a specific period of time about the perceptions of its length. Perhaps we notice that oddity because we can or because we need them. Or perhaps time is relative and we feel it because we are in it. Whatever the truth or the reason, it feels good to recognize that it happens.
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