This phenomenon you described reminds me of watching a good movie vs a boring one. A good movie flies by in the moment, but when you reflect on it, it felt like so much happened in the story. A bad movie at the same length can drag because it's bloated with scenes that don't contribute to the plot. You may remember a few key moments, but most of it feels empty. Changing your route to work has a relatively minor effect on the overall quality of your day. Trying something new and/or meeting new people that have a positive impact on your life adds meaning to your life and spices up the "plot".
i definitely find this to be true, boring days at work or home rush by but the times i venture somewhere new, see something strange at the park, even get a free bag of potatoes at the grocery store, stick out to me and give the days some structure and weight
The feeling of days loosing all meaning... yeaaaah, just spent what was apparently 4 days doing nothing... I thought it was 2. It gets worse when I'm isolated. Going in to the lab provides a sense of structure but also connection which, argueably, makes the biggest difference in mental health... or at least in my mental health
I'm interested with how this interacts with reading, for example a fiction book. You can remain in one place and sit in one position and yet the image generation in your brain allows you to have memories like you participated in the story. So I could feel it was more meaningful to sit in a room and do nothing, if it was reading, than if I spent the day doing stuff that was less interesting than the content of the book. I wonder where the line is between reading that feels memory-meaningful like the different drive to work, and reading that doesn't.
I thought that my new job would make days feel longer... I hadn't noticed that it's been more than 2 weeks since I started...geez also, regarding your audio mix, the music makes it a bit hard to focus on your words at times. One thing I like to do is use a parametric EQ to dip the music around the 200-500hz range so it's not competing so much with the dialogue.
"Show up and be better than nothing" I want this framed on my wall please. Seriously though very inspiring. I noticed that my language learning journey helped me a ton throughout these pandemic years, being stuck at home sucks a little bit less when you're talking to people on twitch in a language you didn't know two years before. Lol. Highly recommended. I still have no idea how old I am now though
When I think about what feels like time it's periods of genuinely free time, instead of time which passed when I was buys, grinding at a task, or felt like I was waiting on something. In the covid years most of the time felt like waiting on something with every industry lagging behind (from dental to cinema).
This is happening to me, weeks and months means nothing. At work trying to remember when we did a project is so hard to determine. Whether over a year ago or 6 months or last week we have to dredge into our tracking system because we all have trouble remembering when we did even major projects.
Such a relatable video! When time becomes nebulous for me, to delineate the days I celebrate all the micro-holidays (ice cream for breakfast day, pi day, Groundhog Day, etc). Next week is Shrove Tuesday - let the pancake races begin!
Gotta admit, Travis putting in the work to do a video that would be slightly better than not uploading is very inspirational to me. I'm now encouraged to spend more time on my creative stuff.
I don't have the markers that help to break up the year that make me take note of time passing. I noticed this after I graduated but Covid was even worse. I didn't even have mundane things like "oh, it's too hot to keep wearing my winter boots, better get my sandals out"..
I felt this a lot in 2020, but I honestly managed to make 2021 feel quite diverse and eventful. There were many facets to this, but by far the largest factor was going for bike rides 5+ days a week, often twice a day. My primary motivation for this was exercise, but it's had a ton of secondary benefits (as exercise tends to). I think any activity that gets you to spend time out of your home while not in a car will contribute to life feeling more diverse and memorable, because the world is a pretty dynamic place. Our homes are intentional islands of stability, and cars insulate us from the world around us, so if your life consists of home, a few consistent secondary locations (e.g. grocery store / office), and the drives between those locations, you are heavily insulated from the natural diversity of life.
Yes ecpecially when we had school at home like twice and those months passed so quicly it feels like i just accepted that its 2021, but now its already 2022 and almost march.
Nice topic! I relate to how the weeks feel slower than the days that make those weeks. Looking back on it, I see that it’s probably because my weeks compose of very similar, if not identical, days. I wake up the same time, where the same clothes, eat the same meals, and go to the same school, same places, talk to the same people I recognize as my friends or acquaintances, and then go home to do hw and other stuff and then chill out, in the SAME spots. Same couch, same bedroom, same desk. I hope to be able to add more variety and community involvement in my day to day life, especially when I get in a situation where I am more financially able to not only get gas, but also maybe “buy” some experiences like lunches and do more than stay inside for my free time. If only time would go by faster so I could get to said circumstance…
I was in for some serious brain surgery 6 and 7 years ago and while you are in recovery after potential brain trauma, your conversation with your attending medical staff has these standard questions and requests "Where are you and why are you here?" "lift an invisible pizza" (Googling suggests they were testing to see if I had pronator drift) "touch my finger and then touch your nose" and most relevant to this video "what is today's date? [ie day, month and year]" I also got those after a head injury. Some of those they are looking for things like how your eyes are focusing and so on, but anyway usually I had no trouble keeping my awareness of current situation (others in the same ward as me were not so lucky). However I got asked those questions so many times I started expecting it and I had to wonder if it biased the evaluation. So yeah getting the year wrong by 2 years could be a sign of a serious cognitive impairment, although thankfully probably not in your case, just the surreal reality of COVID.
I still can't wrap my head around jumping from 28 to being 30 in the last couple years. Also, ever since I turned 25, the years definitely feel like they're flying by. We're in October 2023 right now and I can barely register that almost a year has passed.
I hope you're enjoying your new place! I have very much been experiencing all of this - I am craving something new, so badly. Thank you for putting my jumbled thoughts into words!
Another banger video! I defiitely understand the whole living in your room thing, doing everything here often makes days and weeks seem to blend into an afternoon's worth of thoughts. It's bizzare!
I googled that, that's 37m2, in my frame of reference that is so big, around Paris we had many people go through 2020 & 2021 in 9 to 15 m2, (9m2 is the minimum autorized by law), I considered myself very lucky with 23m2, during the time where we were allowed outside one hour a day in a one kilometer radius around our home, it became so suffucating, many of us are still not adjusting well the life after confinement (didn't help that there was like 4 of them).
Great video! Your channel is like my comfort food brain! (BTW, I usually watch your videos while making myself breakfast so maybe there's some connection there..)
Solid video, as usual :) Gotta find more different and meaningful things to do every few days. Side-note, I wonder if a different, less back-and-forth/staccato background track might be less distracting.. Just a thought
I'd say it's not novelty that is the cure, it's relieving boredom. Same place, same activities, day in, day out. Cure your boredom and the days will zip by.
I'm 24 and in the past 10 years my time has been slipping through my fingers My solution: think of what would be the best thing to do with my time, i.e. if it's passing by so quickly, at least be as productive as possible
As someone who is uncapable of working and basicly sits most of my time at home doing nothing special, I really do'nt experience the problem you do. Never understood it. Not bothered by anything like it.
