I Miss My Childhood

Why is childhood our paradise lost? I think it is the absence of limits, measures, numbers in time that makes it paradise. We don't know that time is measurable, and therefore finite . Or better said, we do not look at it as something measurable yet.

In our childhood time is not a succession or a line. There are not many moments. Only the moment exists. The one and only moment. Everything is contained there. Eternity. Time is not a hourglass where sand falls down unstoppably. Time is the grain of sand that contains the universe. And it is in our hands. We are kings.

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twistermind · 51-55, F

I was talking with my mum about why when adults we have the feeling that time passes faster than when we are kids. I didn't get to give an answer.
What you say could give an answer.
As you say when a kid we focuss on the present moment. We are not in the present thinking about what we lived, or projecting the future. A kid focus so much in living the monent. For him, it doesn't exist anything else as the game he's playing or the activity he's now doing.

Cierzo · M

It is a wonderful feeling. You are the master then. Later time becomes the master and us the servants 😞

twistermind · 51-55, F

@Cierzo: I don't understand.