Thursday, April 24, 2025
Nature seems to take her time. If you agree, then that means there’s a part of you that is rushy. What is that? If nature takes her time, what’s not natural about your impatience? For us to perceive time, there must be a comparable. At one level you might consider yourself part time. Part time and part timelessness – that’s the only way to perceive time gone by.
What about speed? The perception of the speed of time is relative too. Part of you is rushy. The other, father time – good ole time. But who is rushy, if not father time forgetting his pace? We often forget comparables, like what they do in real estate. A home’s worth is compared to what other homes have recently sold for in its vicinity.
A comparable is how we perceive that time goes by – slowly or fast – it’s relative. The entire universe is like that, according to Mr. Einstein. But how do I know it’s relative? Knowledge itself is comparable to what you might call non-knowledge. So, how do I know that I know; and how do I know that I don’t know? Part of me must be ignorant and part of me must be omniscient. But how can part be omniscient when omniscient means “all knowing.”
The seeming part of me that is ignorant must be playing dumb in the same way I play dumb with a toddler. We pretend. But in the back of our minds we know what’s real. Maybe I can’t access that “part” of my mind; but I know it’s real. Perhaps there is something about me that is unreal or surreal. How can that be, though? I am reality. All of it and part of it. Seems paradoxical. But there is no comparison to reality. There is none beside me – Reality.