“How the F* Is It Christmas Again?” — A Blog on Time, or the Illusion of It**
“How the F * Is It Christmas Again?” — A Blog on Time, or the Illusion of It** Every December, without fail, I find myself staring at a half-lit string of Christmas lights, muttering the same phrase that echoes across the globe: “How the f * is it Christmas again?”** Seriously. Wasn’t it just winter ? Wasn’t I just promising myself that next year I’d be more organised, prepared, festive, financially responsible, emotionally available, and spiritually aligned? And yet here we are. Again. December. Like some cosmic joke. The Elastic Band Called Time Time is weird. Physics tells us it's not constant. Neuroscience tells us it's subjective. And lived human experience tells us it's basically an optical illusion performed by a magician who hates planners and savings accounts. Remember being a kid? December felt like an eternity. Twenty-four little doors on an advent calendar? That was work. Each day dragged on like a movie buffering on dial-up in...