The Equuleus Code

The Equuleus Code

Trust the Timing

But Is Timing Everything?

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Susannah West Cord
Feb 05, 2023
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Good timing is invisible. Bad timing sticks out a mile. ~ Tony Corinda, Mentalist

Humans obsess over time. How old, how young. How soon, how long. How fast, how slow. We have a million ways of keeping and comparing time to itself, and another zillion to help us waste time when we’re in a hurry. There is never enough time to do all we need to do, and far too much when we in a hurry to go where it is taking us. We are keeping track and losing time, making time and marking it, too, in an endless cycle of domination by something the deep thinkers among us claim does not, in fact, exist at all. At best, it is relative.

When I got married many years ago, my four year old niece, Zoe, was my flower girl. The ceremony was less than ten minutes long, but at around the five minute mark, five minutes that flew by for me, she looked up at my Maid of Honor and said clearly: “This is taking a looong time.”

Hilarity ensued and Einstein was proven right. Time is relative.

And yet, there is no denying it’s influence over our daily lives, and perhaps, because it is so easy to feel powerless and frustrated by it’s demands, we try to take back our power by claiming it has no value at all.

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