Time remains a crossroads of paradoxes. On the one hand, it is an invention of the human being, perhaps the most useful, but also to which we are the most slaves, in addition, when you want it to pass fast, it goes very slow, and vice versa: in times of greatest pleasure, its speed has soared. Thus, the seconds move slowly in the ER and very fast during dinners with friends where there is a good atmosphere.
One way or another, your progress or existence easily translates into impatience, restlessness, or even anxiety, an anguish in which fear and anticipation also participate. Because we all know that we can’t control everything that’s going to happen and that we also know that everything that happens in the future is unlikely to be positive, life, however prudent we are, can also play a bad trick on us.
- Let’s tell a little story.
- The story begins when several men get trapped in a mine without being able to get out.
- Fortunately.
- They were able to communicate their situation abroad and are waiting to be rescued.
- After assessing the situation.
- The rescue said it would take at least three hours to open an exit corridor.
On the other hand, the same explosion that blocked the exit can cause the roof to fall on them at any time, on their faces you can see the reflection of the fear posed by the threat of a new detachment. They are experienced miners and know that they can be buried under a lot of rocks in a second.
Among the trapped miners there is only one clocked, at one point the others ask the time and the rescuer realized that this increased everyone’s anxiety level, then asked the watch owner to only report the time changes and the others ask them to stop asking.
Eventually, the rescue team managed to get to where the miners were. They were able to save everyone alive except the one on the clock, who had died of a heart attack.
Because? Because he was the only one who had the right to be in constant contact with the source of the anguish and was the only one to reach disproportionate levels of anxiety, on the other hand, it was also for him that time passed slower, so he ended up consuming his own life.
Time is a shadow that stops when you look at it, and that runs when you do not care, the minors who did not have a watch had no choice but to redirect the attention of their thoughts to others that were not in the sense of clockwise . to think about what they would do when they went there.
However, the miner, who was not saved alive, focused all his attention on the focus of anguish, thanks to the clock, his mind could not be distracted by the passage of minutes, which gradually increased his anxiety, until reaching a level could not stand.
We can choose whether we are the miners with clock or without clock when the passage of time becomes an anxious stimulus, we can decide if we want our mind to be constantly focused on updating the weather information or, otherwise, we can divert our attention. thoughts towards more pleasant and, most importantly, less exhausting places.