TV shortens one´s life

[duszek]

When we just change channels and spend several hours in this way we do not notice how time passes.
We kill the present time.

And after a few days we do not remember anything about this period of time in our lives. It disappears from our memory.

Distraction and entertainment in general shorten our lives.

The opposites:

1. We are aware of time because we watch it pass closely.

2. We remember an important event all our life.

[chaz wyman]

Nothing extends time more than boredom.
To live a long life don't do anything interesting.

[duszek]

Nothing extends time more than boredom.
To live a long life don't do anything interesting.

Not quite.

Boredom extends the lived present time because you focus on the time passing.
But when you think back to the time spent in this way this phase shrinks to something minimal or zero, in retrospect.

Whereas when interesting things happen all day long to you and you look back to the morning the morning seems to be far away, as if several days had passed since it.

This is the big mistery of time and remembered time.

[chaz wyman]

Nothing extends time more than boredom.
To live a long life don't do anything interesting.

Not quite.

Boredom extends the lived present time because you focus on the time passing.
But when you think back to the time spent in this way this phase shrinks to something minimal or zero, in retrospect.

Whereas when interesting things happen all day long to you and you look back to the morning the morning seems to be far away, as if several days had passed since it.

This is the big mistery of time and remembered time.

How about this?

The law of diminishing returns.

The passage of time varies in direct proportion to the length of life yet lived.
Thus the experience of passage of your early years are longer than those lived at an older age.

e.g. the experience of one year from five to six is a sixth of your life, but when you experience the year between 20 and 21, it goes so much faster because it is only one 20th of your life, By the time you are 50 or 60 life is whizzing by, and then you are 90 each year is only worth a 90th.

[duszek]

When you retire at the age of 50 or 60 time is not whizzing by if you sit in a room and listen to the clock ticking and you wait for the time of supper because there is nothing better you can do.

And yet in retrospect, when ten days later you try to remember this particular afternoon resembling so many other afternoons then this time is erased from your memory as if it never existed.

Whereas if you do many interesting things between breakfast and supper, discover things, arrange things, experience things, then you hardly believe that it is still the same day.
That is why people like to travel so much, I suppose.

Marcel Proust tried to make the forgotten time resurect again. He had asthma, spent long days in a closed room and tried to remember what he had forgotten.

But what is worth while more ? Trying to remember things forgotten or filling one´s memory with new stuff ?

[chaz wyman]

When you retire at the age of 50 or 60 time is not whizzing by if you sit in a room and listen to the clock ticking and you wait for the time of supper because there is nothing better you can do.

`i'm told that this is when time races the most; not minute by minute, as consideration of that is painfully boring, but month by month, year by year.

[duszek]

But it depends very much on what you are doing.

If you are a scientist working on something passionately your head is packed with important information gathered exactly in this time and so time stretches.

It could be anything that you become passionate about. It could even be bridge or poker or chess.
If every move becomes loaded with associations then things happen and become remembered and included into the net of memories.

[chaz wyman]

But it depends very much on what you are doing.

Obviously - as I said above.