Everyone remembers wanting to grow up as a kid, you would mutter under your breath about how you would treat your kids different when you were older, or look longingly ahead to the day when school was over. The world was going to be our oyster, and time well it had little meaning — we had after all, all the time in the world. Or so we thought.
This last summer was the twenty year high school class reunion. The impact of that date has affected me in more ways that I ever thought possible. I simply cannot believe that twenty years have passed, it seems like that time frame just cannot by true, how did it sneak past me like it did and bite me in the ass?
The answer I have come to believe is that the perception of time can become sufficiently skewed and compressed to a point that it slides by almost without notice. Weeks pass by like days and months like weeks. Before we know it the Summer is over, another gets racked up at the job or in my case, twenty years have gone from since I graduated High School.
The question really is how can our internal clock feel like something only just happened when it in fact was in the past? Could it be that there is no physical passage of time, what if every moment of our lives happens simultaneously and collective minds are only able to comprehend one moment at a time.
Could than when we feel like something just happened be an indication of a partial slip into that moment? Almost like the brain is stopping us from actually slipping into that moment and thereby shifting our cognitive point in time. It’s an interesting question to consider.
When I think about Deja Vue experiences the theory makes perfect sense. Could it be the mind guards slipping and giving a glimpse of another moment that we are getting a glimpse of outside of our established perception of where we are in time?
If so, time doesn’t really pass in a linear fashion like we think but more in a parallel fashion simultaneously. Such a case would help explain how some people see their lives flash in front of them when they experience a traumatic event — in such cases it could merely be that our minds lose control of its fix in time and we see in rapid succession all of the other points which our mind normally obscures.
While my thoughts initially turned to this subject because of my high school reunion, they really started to percolate when I stopped to consider my childhood friendships. I won’t lie, I think I had a great childhood. I had great friends who I was able to keep close and active all the way from birth up to graduating college.
The thought was always that they would remain part of my life, but come college graduation we all for the most part scattered like dust in the wind (que music). And for the better part of the last 16 years this was never something I ever paused to question or consider.
It blows my mind to think that I have not known these friends actively for almost 16 years. Granted when we do get together the gap in time seems to effortlessly shift and have no effect, the the impact of this gap in time is undeniable.
Do I know these friends any more, or do I just remember the echo of the friendship we had when it was last active? I believe I know their character, I don’t think character changes drastically over time in most cases, but do I know what drives them, where there passions are, etc. Absolutely not, and the same holds true in reverse.
This revelation infuses me with a sad melancholy and a feeling of loss. A begrudged acceptance of this being the natural way the world works doesn’t help alleviate matters. If anything it makes me wish that with the proper evolution the of concept of my place in time, that movement back and forth to different events in time which are in theory happening all at once would be possible.
Or maybe it just means I miss my friends.
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