I was talking about this with a friend just the other day. I likened a year in my life now to how long summer school holidays seemed when you were young. They went on forever and when you went back to school, many of your schoolmates had grown and it all felt a bit strange.
So, with people putting up decorations in November, shops with Christmas displays everywhere, adverts on TV; for small children Christmas is longer than their summer holidays.
Perspective, perception, practice. I'm not one to constantly look at the clock. Somehow, I modified my habits to bypass looking at the time every time I see a clock. I do look more often when I have a scheduled appointment, but in general, I try to live my day without concern for time.
My perception of time and space is pretty good, though the time change for daylight savings time has been a big challenge. My body was comfortable with the shortened days, it knew when it wanted to eat and sleep. I still feel the same connection to the shortened days, but the clock tells me a different fictional story.
My perspective on time has changed from childhood to adulthood. The holidays come so quickly, weeks pass and I don't feel like I accomplished as much as I wanted to, and a year seems to fly by and yet an hour of something boring or when I'm tired, feels like forever. (Ah, those are clock watching moments, hoping that I can just make it through.)
And holiday corporate advertising through commercials, and product placement in stores feels like a desperate ploy for businesses to make up for a lackluster year. Black Friday was a one day desperate ploy that many people fell for, and now, Black Friday begins the day after Halloween and no longer has meaning to a shopper, except maybe to create a sense of hurry and fomo. I'm happy that I can fast forward through commercials when I record a show, I spend very little time on social media, and I'm practicing a deeper connection to living with the seasons and emulating the natural ebbs and flows of busyness and rest.
This new practice makes it very clear that we humans are out of balance with nature.
I was talking about this with a friend just the other day. I likened a year in my life now to how long summer school holidays seemed when you were young. They went on forever and when you went back to school, many of your schoolmates had grown and it all felt a bit strange.
So, with people putting up decorations in November, shops with Christmas displays everywhere, adverts on TV; for small children Christmas is longer than their summer holidays.
Perspective, perception, practice. I'm not one to constantly look at the clock. Somehow, I modified my habits to bypass looking at the time every time I see a clock. I do look more often when I have a scheduled appointment, but in general, I try to live my day without concern for time.
My perception of time and space is pretty good, though the time change for daylight savings time has been a big challenge. My body was comfortable with the shortened days, it knew when it wanted to eat and sleep. I still feel the same connection to the shortened days, but the clock tells me a different fictional story.
My perspective on time has changed from childhood to adulthood. The holidays come so quickly, weeks pass and I don't feel like I accomplished as much as I wanted to, and a year seems to fly by and yet an hour of something boring or when I'm tired, feels like forever. (Ah, those are clock watching moments, hoping that I can just make it through.)
And holiday corporate advertising through commercials, and product placement in stores feels like a desperate ploy for businesses to make up for a lackluster year. Black Friday was a one day desperate ploy that many people fell for, and now, Black Friday begins the day after Halloween and no longer has meaning to a shopper, except maybe to create a sense of hurry and fomo. I'm happy that I can fast forward through commercials when I record a show, I spend very little time on social media, and I'm practicing a deeper connection to living with the seasons and emulating the natural ebbs and flows of busyness and rest.
This new practice makes it very clear that we humans are out of balance with nature.