Nothing is as it seems- Time

In this article I will try to look into relation between perception of time and activity done.

Scenario-1.
For most part, we feel like time has flown away without realising that it was passing by. For example whenever parents think about how quickly their kids have grown up, they start recollecting incidents from their kid’s childhood. One will rarely see parents recounting incidents from their kids when they had grown up or after a certain age where daily life becomes steady. Similarly if I remember my years spent, I recollect few incidents from my undergraduate and graduate days, most parts of my treks, some random incidents from day to day life and very few childhood incidents. Rest of my memory is hazy and lost and I remember it as collective years . What is happening here? How is a steady activity not clearly remembered or is remembered in bulk whereas certain incidents are very clear in our mind and we seek continuous pleasure from them and rather hold them so dear that we are almost afraid to lose them? What does this fashion term, “making memories” mean? Why is everyone trying to make memories?

Nothing is as it seems – Mind

Sometimes it is at very unexpected moments that one has flashes of clarity. My most recent was in Kumbh Mela. My cousin took his first dip in the early hours of the day and the second dip nearing noon. After his second dip he said, “Water is much cooler now as compared to morning.” To this my father replied, “Not really. Water feels colder now. It is not really cold. In the morning temperature outside was less as compared to what it is at present. Thus the temperature difference between water and environment was not sensed strongly by the skin and water felt less cold in the morning. Now, as the environment around you has heated up and water is still almost at the same temperature (high heat capacity of water as compared to low heat capacity of air) as it was in the morning, your body feels higher difference (relative temperature).”

This put me in thinking.