Einstein said that
time is relative but I never quite understood the fact. No wonder, I have
always been pathetic with numbers. Never understood time, algebra, money,
costs, accounting and the list goes on. But traveling always seems some kind of
time travel to me. Flashes of past keep hovering around. At times, things seem
as they have never happened. May be that was a different life, a different
time. Sometimes, I need to open my phone’s gallery to actually prove to my
conscious brain about a certain event. However, traveling is something else.
When I travel alone, looking aimlessly into the nothingness out of the window,
I am usually thinking about many things together, get mixed emotions and start
missing everyone I know. Is that a normal thing? I think I have left my parts
at places and with people. And after losing that part, I have tried to rebuild
myself. Obviously, the new me is never the same. Traveling, once again, proves
that to me. It’s like a slideshow of life playing over and over again during
those few hours. I guess that’s what relativity of time is. When it’s 4:30 to
6:30 for people, it has been a certain lifetime for me.
A lot of traveling and which means a lot of reading too. I made it a point to write about a lot of things in this time but ended up sitting idle looking at the ever-changing landscape and reading whatever I can get. I feel empty, there’s absolutely no urge to write so I’ll rather share two things from a book. The first excerpt is a list by the character Javits; a list of what society thinks is normal and anything outside it, makes people uncomfortable and threatened. What normality means in this world? 1) Anything that makes us forget our true identity and our dreams and makes us only work to produce and reproduce. 2) Making rules for a war. 3) Spending years at university and to find a job. 4) Working from nine in the morning to five in the afternoon at something that does not give us the least pleasure, so that we can retire after 30 years. 5) Retiring only to discover that we have no more energy to enjoy life, and then dying of boredom after a few years
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