Enough about time already -_-'

July is fast coming to an end. Where did the time go? And how many times have I asked myself this question? People are gonna start thinking I'm some nagging old dude who repeats the same stuff every time. But in all honesty if there's one thing about life is that there are many things that are ordained and stay the same. For example: time will move irregardless of what you do.

Recently Code Geass made me realized, the passage of time is how you observe it. You may feel that it passes by quickly and some may disagree. One's sense of time is a lot more important that we realize. In Code Geass, Rolo's Geass suspends one's sense of time (or timing if you will) thus it appears as if time was stopped. I was struggling to understand it when I first saw it. The Geass ability has always had something to do with the human brain, so the ability to stop time seemed way too imbalanced to me and didn't fit with the concept of Geass. It all made sense when you find out that it's not time that was stopped, but your sense of time. It's just like if you take really strong painkillers. You don't feel the pain, but it doesn't mean that the hurt/injury has gone away. Similarly, once Geassed by Rolo, one does not sense time but it does not mean that time has stopped flowing. A very interesting ability to be very honest and if only the little gay brat weren't psycho he would have been a little more popular with the fans. Well I'll explain more on this someday maybe.

Another example would be Marilyn's power in Law of Ueki. She changes 1 second into 10 seconds. This is a bit more illogical, but then again Law of Ueki doesn't follow the laws of physics; ironic in a way. Regardless, the ability to change 1 second into 10 effectively increases the time you have by 10 times, never mind it only works for short bursts since opponents have to move and react 10 times faster to even catch up.

Let's skip to another point. People always say how one perceives time in different situations. For example, if you are having a great time one might tend to forget the time. Time passes irregardless, when one is having fun one would not want the time to go so quickly. When the time comes to stop you tend hear things like "what it's that time already?" or "so quickly?". Time didn't move faster nor slower, but one's perception of time was that the time passed by too quickly, so much so that the fun times seem short.

Conversely, if one is in the office with nothing much to do and everyone else is being quiet or pensive. One might start thinking, "I wish the time will pass sooner" and look at the clock or watch every so often (which is quite often in my experience). Because one is so conscious of the time and it's passage but at the same time impatient with it, one's sense of perception is that "why is the time passing so slowly?" or "can't the time pass sooner?". Again, the time never went faster by 10 times, nor crawled to a standstill; it is after all, one's perception.

Therefore, psychology apparently plays a big part in this and perhaps the way to pass those seemingly long and dull days is to fill up your time with things that are fun and fulfilling. Time is after all, one flowing, unbroken stream. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, or years; they are merely the creation of man, so that man's perception of time can be refined. Imagine you wake up in the morning and these segregations were never created, I think you'll probably be late for work a lot more often than you do now (speaking for myself).

So the next time you are bored in the office, think of fun times; it might help, I think. >_>