Time is a funny, precarious thing. When we have it, we don't know what to do with it, and we wish it would go away. When we don't have it, it's all we think about. Our lives are governed by time, and yet we never seem to get used to its rhythm.
Technology seems only to exacerbate this predicament. The incessant need to check for email, to be ready to receive instant messages from friends or random strangers looking you up on facebook - they all have the effect of trying to reduce the time between moments of experience, and with devastating success, at least in my life.
Those who know me know that I love to think. that's how I used to describe it, but now I'd like to sketch a different picture. When I pause in my life, it isn't to think, it's to reflect and absorb.