Friday, February 9, 2018

Time

This article from NPR about the movie Groundhog Day reminded me of my Existentialism Class where we read Heidegger's Being And Time.

I can clearly remember the prof talking about time in this sense and how it changes when your ownmost possibility (death - the possibility of you that ends the other possibilities) and you can read it in this line from the article:

But it definitely changed my relationship with time. 

We love to think of time as outside of us and unchangeable.

It isn't.

Isn't that wonderful? To know that you can change time.

There's an old Leo Buscaglia bit where he asks: what would you do if you knew you had a week to live?

Would you tick away the moments that make up a dull day? Fritter away the hours in and off-hand way?


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