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Slow Motion Minutes by William Vervalsing
March 2nd, 2008 8:53 PM
This was an excellent idea for a task! I actually do this on a regular basis now (perhaps not EVERY hour, but often enough).
I noticed that ironically, when I moved in slow motion, time seemed to go faster, and days still seemed to get longer... It had me very confused. I enjoyed doing things in slow motion... It was almost meditative. One of my favorite things to do was drawing (I even signed it in slow-mo), but I also engaged in talking to librarians, eating mango, taking out compost, blowing bubbles, doing dishes, pretending to be in an action movie, taking photographs, and more. Weight lifting was by far the most difficult.
I think everyone should do this for at least fifteen minutes a day in total, and document their observations weekly.
Peace.
I noticed that ironically, when I moved in slow motion, time seemed to go faster, and days still seemed to get longer... It had me very confused. I enjoyed doing things in slow motion... It was almost meditative. One of my favorite things to do was drawing (I even signed it in slow-mo), but I also engaged in talking to librarians, eating mango, taking out compost, blowing bubbles, doing dishes, pretending to be in an action movie, taking photographs, and more. Weight lifting was by far the most difficult.
I think everyone should do this for at least fifteen minutes a day in total, and document their observations weekly.
Peace.
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posted by William Vervalsing on March 3rd, 2008 5:35 PM
First of all, you didn't finish the sentence.
Irony (according to Webster's English dictionary) simply means the opposite of what was believed to be true is true, and I believed that having time seem faster would make days seem shorter, but the opposite was true, as I said in the part of the sentence you left out. I think perhaps you read the sentence differently than I intended it to be read.
I'm not saying that I'm right and you're wrong, just that there was a misunderstanding. Agreed, or am I still wrong? You might have a better understanding of the English language than I do, and if so, I'd love to hear your opinion.
posted by William Vervalsing on March 3rd, 2008 8:28 PM
Yes actually, it made very big bubbles, and not as many as usual.
I was going to make this a rant about how that's not what ironic means, but instead I'll just point out that if it usually takes you 1 minute to complete activity X, and you complete activity X in slo-mo, and it takes 3 minutes, it's not surprising at all that it seems like the time went by faster.