RE: Working the Work Week

A reply to Exa Stencil

Before lock down I was on alternating 2/1 3/1, treating Wednesdays as a small Sunday and an extra day for church and services.

That’s fine and I’ll go back to it if there still is a world out there once the world opens up again but I want to bring up a huge drawback:

It makes time go by really quickly. The years just zoom by.

There are two theories in why time seems to pass more slowly for kids than for us oldies. One is that each day for them is a much bigger fraction of their total lived experiences. I heard that a lot of studies indicate that this is the case (but I wonder what kind of methodology could “prove” an issue like this…)

But another is that routines and when repeated experiences are similar, that makes (subjective) time go faster. That meshes better with my own experience.

My twenties when I was a dirty hippie punk artist (both when I had jobs and when I didn’t) felt so rich, so varied, so long♥︎

My thirties just zoomed by.

And so did my high school years, especially senior high! The rigid schedule of school made the weeks similar, just like now when I have my mess together with laundry, a set of weekly phone appointments, and (pre lockdown) church on the regular. Routine and ritual just eats up the hours compared to the anxiety, chaos, torment and pain of a free artist.