Sylvia Plath + Allie Brosh both had the wish that everything could be done at once, then never again. The idea of repetition = exhausting
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This, in my opinion, contrasts tremendously with what "happy", or anti-depressed people say, or how they perceive time:
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The presentist mystics are kinda wrong though. The present is as much an illusion as past and future
The depressive experience of time fits phenomenology as well as enlightened presentist experience. Both are constructed temporalities of same order. One is just easier to access
Also, “time is natures way of making sure everything doesn’t happen at once” (1920s scifi writer Ray Cummings via physicist J. A. Wheeler) is a surprisingly good definition that works for both objective and subjective understandings of time if you squint a bit.
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Yeah, “now” is also a convenient illusion provided by our bodies
Your brain frequently rewrites the past within the last few hundred milliseconds to make it seem as if all of your intents and perceptions are instantaneously integrated, but they’re all on different delays
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Also, no matter how you spin it, going to the bank still sucks



