Test Writing
Test Writing I'm writing this to avoid the tedium of lying around waiting for medical appointments and medication alarms. My sense of time changed when I had Covid a few months back. This turned into Myasthenia Gravis, double vision and neurology appointments. Now, the days go by very, very slowly. Is writing, any kind of writing, a good way to deal with this? Here I am trying. They say that this sense of “time hangs heavy” is due to boredom or lack of things to do. But why do we find “slow time” so annoying? While time, as measured by mechanical clocks, does not vary, our sense of it clearly does. Where does this biological sense of time come from? Early humans did not have any free time. There were no easy trips to the supermarket. There was always the need to hunt and find food. Leisure was scarce. Perhaps this drive to survive by doing is what makes free time challenging. We fill the gaps with song, dance, literature, art, science, sports and more recently TV, Inter...