How can we slow time down?

Laura Vanderkam writes at City Journal,

Time is constant, but a wide-open mind is like a bigger aperture in a garden hose. As adults, we put our thumbs over the spout. We close off the depth and breadth of experience, and hence the flow is faster. Slowing time down means consciously creating new adventures, taking emotional risks, and filling moments with intense connections that make time seem to stand still.

...I try to pause and acknowledge all that is going on, these new tracks of memory laid. You can feel nostalgic for the “now” even as you’re in it.

For the door does close, and eventually I will look back on all of this. Even happy moments bear in their shadows this melancholic reality. All moments, good or bad, are finite. All you can do is deepen your experience of them.

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