Chapter 2: "Slowing down" time

When Einstein was talking about the theory of relativity to others, he said: "You sit next to a beautiful woman for an hour and it feels like a minute, and in the summer you sit by the fire for a minute and it feels like an hour, that's the theory of relativity!" This example is so classic that Einstein just wanted to give an example, but people in life took it as the truth and forgot to think about it.

It was a few years ago, when I was a free and happy single dog. I joined the same company in Tai'an as my college classmates and lived in the same dormitory. On an ordinary weekend, I wanted to climb Mount Tai on a whim, and after I told my classmates about this idea, my classmates dismissed it, because he didn't care about playing in the mountains and rivers, but about his game routine and copies. I rested early after making a plan, and he asked his friends to stay up late to brush up on dungeons.

The next morning, after washing up and packing my simple luggage and backpack, I tiptoed out the door to the rhythmic snoring of my roommate. Take the car to the foot of Mount Tai, queue up to buy tickets, and then start climbing the mountain alone. I saw a lot of stone carvings along the way, and I took a closer look at them and took photos selectively. When the tour guide held a loudspeaker to explain the origin of this place and any interesting facts, I also pricked up my ears to eavesdrop. For example, the place "Huimaling" means that the horses ridden by the ancient kings were basically tired and collapsed when they arrived at this place, and if they went up, they could not use horses; For example, the origin of "Flying Stone" is that Huang Feihu threw a stone to smash Song Zhenzong. When I walked to Zhongtianmen, I suddenly heard the sound of falling objects in the middle of the steps, and looked up to see that a large package was rolling down the steps, and the pedestrians looked sideways, and the result was that a pair of lovers carried the tent bag down the mountain together, and the girl was too tired, and threw the tent down angrily. The pedestrian's voice was neither high nor low, but he spoke very clearly, accusing the little couple of immorality, and threatening the people on the steps, and the boy also whispered down the girl......

In short, the mountaineering is still fresh in my memory, and I don't have much to say. In order to save money, I didn't take the ropeway down the mountain, I walked down the mountain, and when I returned to the dormitory, it was already dark, and my roommate said "Come back?" He continued to stare at the computer screen and play the game. I feel that my face is tight, when I touch my face, my face is full of salt particles (left after sweat evaporation) is very rough, I obviously feel that I gently rub off a salt particle with my hand, I didn't use soap when I went to the bathroom to wash my face, and my face felt that my skin was particularly smooth when I touched the water. After washing, I uploaded the picture of my mobile phone to the computer while drinking water, and then chatted with my online friends to share what I had seen and heard about the day.

In the evening, my roommate suddenly sighed, "I'm going to work again tomorrow!" Time flies so fast......" sighed for a long time. I suddenly remembered the theory of temporal relativity that I mentioned at the beginning. There is a saying that is particularly meaningful, saying, "Time lasts forever, and it is us who passes." "When people lament that time flies, most of them come out when they have the feeling of "wasting time", and they begin to feel sorry for those times that are no longer there. However, there is no such thing as time, there is no such thing as fast or slow, in the world a minute is 60 seconds, you say that time flies, and too much time has passed, which is inappropriate. Every minute and every second is just right.

At that time, I began to love to lift the bar, and I couldn't listen to others complaining that "the holidays pass so quickly, and the work time passes so slowly", and I always remind myself that I must cherish my time. The speed of time passes, to put it simply, is one's own feelings, consciousness. Interestingly, time passes most quickly when we are unaware of it. The time to go to school and work is not entirely ours, it is dominated by schools and enterprises, especially the time of school, which is forcibly divided into many blocks every day, these 45 minutes are for mathematics, the next 45 minutes are given for Chinese, and the next time is given for English...... The itinerary is tight, and when it comes to the holidays, there is no mandatory arrangement, how do we live? Sleep in for a while, get three shots a day, wake up and nap unhurriedly, and then dedicate a few hours to the game, or take a nap to wake up naturally...... Because the schedule is loose, the attention is also distracted (what attention is there during sleep?). Time "passes" fast, of course.

Friends, the gist of slowing down time, I think you already know, it's very simple, just keep your schedule tight and do more things that have nothing to do with sleep. We are responsible for our own time, don't make up for the "guilt" of wasting time with complaints that don't go at all, spend our time reading books, practice calligraphy when we are tired, watch a favorite movie comfortably with tea, go shopping with our lover, and play a game with our children......

In the same amount of time, your schedule is full, and time is naturally like a long stream of water, comfortable and peaceful.

If Einstein were alive, I would tell him that if I sat with eight different beauties for an hour each, those eight hours would certainly not be much better than eight minutes by the fire. In case I have a closer relationship with 8 beauties and step on eight boats, then these eight hours will definitely require a battle of wits and courage, a high degree of tension, and a double test of intelligence and physical strength, so let me be quietly by the summer fire and have a good rest for a day, I may feel as relieved and comfortable as a holiday, right?!