How Time REALLY Works

Dear reader,

Lately, I’ve been thinking about time.

How slippery it is.

How it feels abundant and scarce at the exact same moment.

How a single minute can stretch wide enough to hold 10 different productive actions… or shrink into nothing.

As a matter of fact, I’m convinced time isn’t even real, it's just an illusion we ALL agreed to believe in.

(And before you start calling me delusional, hear me out. I have a feeling I'm not the only one.)

In one minute, I can load the laundry, send a couple emails, refill my water, and even let my mind wander into a half-formed daydream.

Sixty seconds; full, productive and alive.

But in that same sixty seconds on another day?

I might just scroll through a reel…then another…then another.

My sister said it would take a year to marry a king, gather an army and dethrone a tyrant. I did it in only three months. -Roa, The Caged Queen by Kristen Ciccarelli-

And suddenly, that one minute, turns into thirty.

An entire hour slips through my fingers.

Maybe two.

Maybe more.

It’s wild, isn’t it?

How time can feel like a loyal friend when you’re focused…and a thief when you’re not.

But here’s the part that keeps echoing in my head:

Time doesn’t change. We do.

A minute never goes under or beyond 60 seconds.

We choose what stretches a minute into meaning and what collapses an hour into nothing.

College and adult life are especially chaotic like that, deadlines, group projects, late-night conversations, identity crises at 2 a.m., the sudden urge to reinvent your whole life between classes.

Some days you feel unstoppable; some days you can barely keep your eyes open.

Yet time keeps moving, quietly, whether you fill it with purpose or distractions. It never stops.

And I’m learning that maybe the goal isn’t to “manage” time, maybe the real challenge is learning to manage yourself within time.

To notice when you’re drifting.

To recognize when you’re numb.

To celebrate when you’re present.

To reclaim your minutes before they become months you can’t get back.

Because here’s the truth no one tells you in your adulting orientation packet: You’re not actually running out of time…You’re running out of attention.

And attention, your ability to be awake, intentional, and alive, is what turns ordinary minutes into extraordinary moments.

So, take a breath.

Close your eyes,

and decide how you want your next sixty seconds to feel.

Because that choice?

That’s where your power lives.

You see, time might just be an illusion but who you become out of it, is entirely up to you.

Love,

Me <3

P.S: It gets better, always.