Counting and measuring time is a relative thing no matter who you are. Even though I don't always realize it, I'm sure my internal clock is actually extremely regimented. However, my version of how fast or slow the seconds and hours are being meted out is constantly being amended and altered. My counting of time most definitely gets pushed through a sieve in a crisis and denatures in times of uncertainty and boredom. In my kids, time counting has been an activity that they have been grappling with throughout their short lives. My son is at a stage where he is constantly testing new vocabulary words and theories to describe time passing and he uses them rather experimentally. I was a little shocked by how quickly my daughter passed through a phase of not really knowing what day it was to correcting me. Currently, the advent calendar has been re-named a Chocolate counter which I think suits it perfectly. Of course, with his evolving sense of measurement my son demanded that he be given "not that many, but another many" chocolate windows, so, at this rate, Christmas will be here before I know it.
We talk to ourselves everyday, all day (and night) for the whole of our lives. We started talking to ourselves before we knew we were a self, we forget what we said because we forget everything from before...when we were too young and busy developing our brain to remember those early years. There is still lingering residue of long forgotten conversations I have had with myself as a toddler sitting around in the crevices...sloughing off occasionally into words I tell myself still. We talk non-stop, and not just with dialogue. Our goosebumps communicate to us, our tingly feelings, our neurons, our peripheal vision. They are all submitting data into our self and expecting us to react, respond or all to often, expecting what they are sending us will be ignored. After all that talking, you'd think we'd know what we think about most things, but occasionally we are stumped. Unless we stop what we are doing and really concentrate sometimes that voice(s) ...
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