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, Internet, movies, etc. Do ditch diggers and scientists have similar time problems? SJ Gould did a lot of writing but also dug into baseball statistics. I'm guessing he spent many hours every day writing. Asimov wrote a few hundred books. He was an aerophobe so had extra time on trains to write. Tolstoy and many others wrote very long books. Book length, it seems, was a good thing before movies and TV. I'm no writer but desperation is driving me. Before this I was focused on house repair. I have lost interest in house stuff - I don't know why exactly. I can write while lying down using my phone. That would be impossible when candles and quill pens were in vogue. I guess slumping at a desk did the job. I do feel a bit better writing this. Perhaps I'll write every day.