Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"I think I thought that after lockdown was lifted, and things went back to some degree of 'normal' - whatever that is - time would snap back into place and the days would resume their usual progression, Monday to Tuesday to Wednesday and so on. It's not that I'm particularly attached to that order; it's more that I feel like I blinked and lost a year, and then I blinked and lost another 9 months. And now I'm filled with existential dread that I will blink again and I'll be 50 and then I'll be 80 and still I'll just be sat here, in my house, drifting from the bed to the desk to the sofa to the bed, and then I'll be dead. I'm not scared of death, you understand. I just didn't expect it to run up behind me in this aggressive manner.

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"Our tendency to describe time in terms of space, place, and motion, makes intuitive as well as scientific sense: time is a property of space, and the two are bound together in physics to form the four-dimensional model we refer to as 'spacetime'. Less scientific, but I think still intuitively true: the fact that our movement in and through space has been severely restricted over the past 18 months has had an impact on our perception of our movement in and through time. We physically haven't travelled through space very much, so we feel like we haven't travelled through time very much either, and then are surprised when we look up to find it's next month."

-- Nat Guest (unfortunatalie), "time's gone weird, rip time", 2021-09-09