There is a famous quote in Design, “Less is more.” It tells people that when things are designed in a simple way, you can enjoy more with them, and things also will last longer. It also tells people not to do things over but just good enough.

In the past few days, I’v been thinking a similar idea in a different dimension - time. People nowadays are becoming more impatient. It seems to them that there are too many things in their lives, and they don’t know how to keep up with everything so that they don’t fall behind. So they learn to do things as quickly as possible, and as effeciently as possible. Time is too expensive to spend. The second worst thing for them is to find out that after so hard they have been working all along, they still fall behind someone else (and most possibly younger than them). And the only thing worst than that, is to find out that someone who was behind them have been ahead.

I’ve been feeling this way for quite a long time too. But suddenly I realize, if this is the real life, how are you going to enjoy it? It’s impossible to always keep the leading place in the game of life. To win one match, you have to give up all the other matches to focus. Otherwise you will lose to someone who do this. So you learn to slow down yourself in the unimportant events, and slow down yourself in the unimportant moments.

Only those who always watch the clock notice how time passes……but not noticing how much time is wasted on watching it.

There is an inner time inside every person, and there is the outer time outside every person. For the outer time, no matter what one’s doing, it counts. For the inner time, only doing things when one really enjoy, it counts, and it counts faster if you enjoy more. So if you do nothing, you’ll find how the outer universal time flies but your inner time didn’t make any progress. But if you’re doing your most enjoyable things, you’ll feel amazing like how much wonderful time has passed, but it might be only a few hours actually.

Interesting as it is, I find my time is getting slow recently. Outer time is slow, and inner time is fast.