It is sometimes difficult to see how time goes by faster an faster. I don’t remember a lot from my early ages, until I was like 11. Some people say that being a child, days are short but on a greater scale, it feels like “eternity”. And that growing up, you realise how time is “accelerating”. I don’t really see it myself, although I think I understand why we slowly start to understand that time goes fast: it’s just that you get to understand time better. Each year you live, you (un)consciously tell yourself “it’s just another year to live”. And you think or maybe have this idea of life where you start only by learning a lot, then you’re just dropped into the active life, with the same routine, going to work everyday, coming back, making dinner and going to bed and so you are just waiting for things to happen (that’s how it feels to me for now anyway). Put some spices in your life!

So, if you think that time is going faster than some time ago, how do we try to manage our time, or even try to slow it down? First, time, if you’re not eternal, has a value. So for example if you have any projects, accomplish them. And if you have none, make a list of things you could do on the long run. Things that matter to you. Examples: learn a new language, a discipline, a science or learning how to cook.

For the most ambitious ones, why not try to plan your life on a decade or more. Think of an ideal job, leisures, where you think you’d want to live, and what kind of big life projects you’ll want to pursue etc.

I realise some of you might be thinking that some of what I say is a little “too much”; but I like telling what I think, and this quarantine blog was really a place where I felt “free” to say what was on my mind and that I wanted to tell when I had the occasion. Thank you for this opportunity of showing how I think to myself and others!

Brahms