Life is a moment™

Wow, I just realized it's been 13 months since I last updated my blog!

It's amazing how fast it feels like time has passed. I guess that's what comes with being busy thinking about research matters, to the extent that I have done.

I was still writing 2008 by mistake in February. I've heard of people who remember in detail what they did almost every day of their lives. Lately I've been struggling to remember what happened last week or even yesterday!

My New Year's resolution was to take pictures of memorable events every month and make an album of the memories. This would help me remember more of the valuable moments that seem to pass me by too fast. I think that is a good idea, and I will make sure to do that in December and follow up in coming years. There are indeed many memories - for example several trips to Oslo seeing two friend couples becoming parents and getting married.

I have been contemplating a lot in recent years why it feels like time flies by at such lightening speed. When I was a young little child one year seemed like ages, as though my brain processes were slow or efficient enough to absorb any "trivial" event. I was "with it", soaking up the moments in much more detail than in present time. Back then I had a need to learn about the world in an entirely different way than today. I was better at living in the moment, I suppose. Have I now lost concept of time because too much of my time is spent solving puzzles inside my brain, rather than connecting my brain with the details of the surrounding environment?

I think the answer is yes. No more a child who naturally absorbs the world around me, I must make more of an effort to live in the moment, to better connect my thought processes with the actual world.

As poet Nils-Fredrik Nielsen wrote,

"All these days that came and passed, little did I know that they were actually life."

Stated as my newly conjured motto:

Life is a moment™