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Inside an Accident
Time is strange during an accident. It seems to go very slowly and I seem to be in a different world. What takes just split seconds seems to me to be a slow paced thought process with hyper awareness. In two accidents I seemed to be floating through air and I knew if it would be ok or bad before it finished.
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I am an engineer who gravitated to the study of time. I observed people completing work tasks and documented how long each individual task took. In a funny way of looking at it, I spent a lot of time observing time, a whole lifetime actually. I looked at eliminating wasteful work tasks and rearranging the required tasks in the smoothest flow of work possible. This lead to more efficient use of time and labour.
But, my fascination with time is much bigger that what I studied or what I worked on. No, instead I have always been unsettled about the concept of time. It was not my 46 years of working studying time that unsettled me, but rather it was life's emotional experiences that pulled me deeper into studying and exploring the concepts of time.
It was watching the moment of life stopped, watching time stop for my dog and for my relatives that set me on this path of wanting to know. At first I wanted to know how to go back in time. Sounds crazy yes, but I desperately wanted to go back and change things. I read and I studied like I never had before. Finally, after months and years in complete immersion, I picked my head up and said that I cannot understand and I cannot go back. But, it didn't end there. No, I continue to delve into what time is, does it exist anywhere outside of this earth and many other possibilities for time.
In this blog I will share some of what I have learned, what I have discarded and what else I am looking at. It may or may not be interesting for someone to explore with me but mainly it is meant to be a record for myself of my journey to explore time.