This is the start of what I call summer "time". Everything gets faster - "time flies". And then it is August - and that for me is the month before "school starts". Not so much the zenith of summer.
"Tempus fugit (Classical Latin pronunciation: [ˈt̪ɛmpʊs̠ ˈfʊɡit̪]) is a Latin phrase, usually translated into English as "time flies". The expression comes from line 284 of book 3 of Virgil's Georgics, where it appears as fugit irreparabile tempus: "it escapes, irretrievable time".
There's a calculation for time movement. This from a cbsnews.com article: "From the standpoint of a clock or calendar, each standard temporal unit is exactly the same: Every minute contains 60 seconds; every day contains 24 hours. However, standard temporal units vary in what I’ve dubbed “the density of human experience” – the volume of objective and subjective information they carry."
Time is perceived to pass slowly (high density) in situations where there is almost nothing happening or a great deal is happening. In other words, the complexity of the situation is either much higher or much lower than normal. The situation seizes our attention - filling each standard temporal unit with the experience of self and situation. Often things appear to move in slow motion.
Time seems to pass quickly when the density of experience per standard temporal unit is abnormally low - a compression of time. Here's the CBSnew.com article explanation:
"Say you have a busy day at work. You might be doing complex things, but they’re routine because you’ve been doing them for so long. Given that we behave more or less unthinkingly, each standard temporal unit contains very little memorable experience. The “density” of unique experience is low. And at the end of the day, time seems to have passed quickly. We’re pleasantly surprised to discover that it is already time to go home."
The author says the routineness leads to forgetting experiences - for example, from the entire day, month, etc. And doesn't that seem to apply to us as we get older.
Older people say - "how time flies". I haven't heard a young person say this. Why is that? An older person can recall something from 10 and 20 years ago (and more at my age) and realize how long ago that was - and with it the perception that time has passed so quickly.
This is the completion day of the Ontario Regional Lily Show. I took this picture of my picture on the cover of the Let's Grow Lilies Handbook from a previous show. It came from Brian's Lilycrest Gardens growing field. I started taking pictures of it in 2007. The field was filled with thousands of plants and hundreds of thousands of blooms.
No comments:
Post a Comment