This shampoo I am using must be doing something to my brain. As I was having one of my late baths, I had this thought: It is undeniable that time started passing by too quickly after I was thirty. My teens and 20’s didn’t fly by in such a hurry, but I can feel time swishing past me now. So I thought what if it is not just the effect of busy everyday life, or an impression we get as we grow older, what if there is something more to it? What if something hurries time, what if there is a big hole that swallows it up, or another dimension that we haven’t found out anything about? What if time changes gear due to a natural law of physics –an area of knowledge I am absolutely ignorant of.
Then I rinsed and repeated.
And this morning I found this article which although it argues for the exact opposite (that time is slowing down), somehow proves that when it comes to making questions I cannot answer, I am up there with the finest scientists of this earth. Plus, I do it while shampooing my hair.
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:22 am
I totally agree with you. I am 26 years old and although my memory is very strong i didn’t realize the exact way my last 8 years passed. And it’s getting faster and faster…i’m just trying enjoy the speed of time and catch up whtever i love and like to do. Don’t fprget that the most valuable gift we can give is our time to people we want.
Have a nice day!
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Time is making me crazy. It seems to run faster and faster the last 5 years. Grey hair appeared from one day to the other. I fear waking up tomorrow to find out I’m 85. Maybe that’s why I don’t like to go to sleep and that makes me look even more old! I ought to shampoo my hair more oftenly.
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
This isn’t one of those “women have to do everything men do, but better and in highheels” things is it?
January 23rd, 2008 at 2:51 pm
agadir
i give my time freely! have a nice day too.
ardent
i am going to find that hole in the universe and i am going to shut it up once and for all.
crag
i am afraid it is. but i did it without any heels so it was a bit easier.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Speaking of time -
Someone told me yesterday that the world will end sometime in December of 2012. Something about the Mayan calendar ending and the winter solstice and the alignent of the earth and something else, blah blah blah. In other words, stop washing your hair. Or change shampoos
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:32 pm
I have my greatest ideas while in the shower as well, I must say
I feel like that too and I too suspect something more is happening, It’s a little frightening to think about, actually. I heard from some kind of non-mainstream scientist that there was something about the axis of the earth that was shifting and that it affected time.
We do experience time differently as we grow older but it can’t be this fast, can it? My last 7 years flew by me…bummer!
January 24th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana!
January 24th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Oh, great post, Chloe! I love that kind of thing. The black energy article was awesome, offered possible explanations relevant to the thoughts below that came to me when I was trying NOT to think. (In addition to shampooing, meditation is another irresistible invitation to the brain to kick up, not calm down!) I had to see “What The Bleep Do We Know!?” to be informed about alternate dimensions, though, so the fact that you thought about it on your own while barefoot unquestionably entitles you to put a Ph.D. after your name!
The days are getting shorter
Gravity’s getting stronger
The sun is getting closer
The moon is getting more maniacal
And thus the tides are more devil-may-care
January 25th, 2008 at 2:07 am
The thing making time go by quickly is the amount of water running down the drain in your bathtub/shower. Most kids spend only a little time in the shower, so time doesn’t move fast enough for them to notice, and when they take a bath the drain is blocked so for the kid in a tub full of water time stands still.
Either take faster showers, or block the drain to keep time from swishing away so quickly. ;D
January 25th, 2008 at 2:09 am
Chloe, its you! You keep moving around in cyberspace, awfully hard to locate
I thought about your time acceleration experience and my genius mind came up with a brilliant formula to explain it - this should clear all your doubts.
c=TN(k1)-ye^(-rT)N(k2)
(Please don’t send it to the Nobel Prize committee yet, I hate all that media attention).
BTW what magic shampoo is that ?
January 25th, 2008 at 2:16 am
kiki
is this true? I read somewhere that Emos want to commit suicide on that date. Hey if the world is ending anyway, why bother with suicide? these Emo people are so over dramatic.
devil
i think Papa said the right thing. I am going to try his suggestion. Maybe time goes down the drain you know.
betabug
i am sending your thoughts to the Nobel Committee and we’ll see what happens
miss alister
when i was very young, i used to drink lots of cocktails. They have lubricated my brain. x
Papa
that makes sense.
Papa, you should like a book like Lewis Carroll’s books. What you said was so Alice in Wonderland. So sweet.
Wriju
of course it is me.
thanks for the formula. i’ll try to apply it to shampoo too.
It’s one i had bought in England, Duchy Originals. xx
January 25th, 2008 at 3:48 am
Oh I definitely think you are correct about this one…Everything seems as if it goes so quickly right now. My dad always says time waits for no
one.
Hope you are doing well.
Hugs,
January 25th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Time seems to stop and go for me.. weird. The seasons seem to change faster though.
January 26th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
lol!
i have no sense of time. like 23 does not seem almost 11 years ago to me. so sometimes i do not remember how old i am–or is that the senility kicking in early!
Novel
January 26th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
What I have found is the effect I pursued with smoke and drink in my twenties and early thirties is becoming my natural state in my late thirties. I also find I have a hard time seeing my son’s sea monkeys.
January 27th, 2008 at 5:22 am
And I just had this lovely image of a shapely young woman I know washing her hair in nothing but heels. And now you say girls don’t wear heels to shampoo their hair. (sigh).
There goes another fantasy–ruined. Ah well, she’s taking off to Africa for six months on Monday anyways.
January 27th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Good news. You can keep washing your hair. Despite your worries of time speeding up you will be happy to know you’ll get some of it back in the future.
When the black hole opens up and spits some of it back out. You may or may not be here to reap benefits.
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January 27th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
What brand exactly are you using
…. as if i need to ask any more questions…
(sigh)
January 28th, 2008 at 3:04 am
I do some of my best thinking while shampooing too! Do you think that the scrubbing shakes the brain awake? I need some sort of waterproof notebook or something
I feel like time is passing more quickly now too.
January 28th, 2008 at 4:00 am
I do some of my best thinking in the tub. It’s one of the only places where I can truely just sit back and not think about anything else but things like the meaning of life!
Please tell us what comes into your head the next time you shampoo: it’s very insightful!
xo