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Our Time Is Tricky: The Illusion of Control
Time is the one thing we all share, yet never fully understand. It feels simple on the surface—hours, days, years—but living through it reveals how slippery it really is. Time stretches and shrinks, speeds up and slows down, depending not on the clock, but on us.
Some moments feel like they last forever—a long wait, a sleepless night, a tough conversation. Others vanish before we even realize they happened—a perfect afternoon, a childhood summer, a quiet goodbye. Time doesn’t move evenly. It bends with memory, emotion, and attention.
We try to control it with schedules, reminders, routines. But the truth is, we don’t manage time—time manages us. It slips through our fingers no matter how tightly we try to hold on.
And yet, we often act like we have all the time in the world. We put off joy. We delay hard choices. We wait for a “better” moment. But time doesn’t wait. That’s the trick: it keeps moving, whether we’re ready or not.
So maybe the challenge isn’t to beat time—but to notice it. To be more present. To spend it on what matters. Because once it’s gone, we don’t get it back. And that’s what makes it so precious.