recently I've experienced things that have changed me into a completely different person. my priorities list was unbalanced and I've neglected what should've mattered to me the most. it was only until a couple of days ago that I realized what has become of me and my life.. which sparked this whole idea of "treasure each moment". I still can't get over this quote by Tennessee Williams:
"Has it ever struck you…that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by so quickly you hardly catch it going"
it is in a way very sentimental, very melancholy. very sad that each moment that passes by is so fast that you simply cannot grasp it in your hands. it is out of your control and it is what makes time beautiful in a sense that one moment in time can never be lived twice.
it scares me that i'm changing topics now but it took a lot of courage to do so as well! now i can only hope that i'll be able to catch up with things and gain more insight into the direction that i want to be going with my final year project.
what i want to investigate now besides the theories behind time (circadian clock, biological clocks, the solar system etc..) is how to capture the essence of time. are we able to capture a moment in time? is there something more substantial, more thought-provoking than simply photographs?
list of things to do and places to go to:
-live a day without knowing the time.. this would require more preparation than the actual experiment! will have to cover all clocks around the house and find a way to remove the time off my phone..
-visit National Maritime Museum
-ways of "capturing time" in nature: perhaps buying a bouquet of flowers and recording their every stage of life by "freezing" them in resin?
-visit Kew Gardens
-look into Einstein's theories of time
-create my own mini time measuring devices
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