Waiting

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   There's something about having to wait when your whole mind is interested in the outcome.  It doesn't matter if it's the next package from Amazon, a trip to the zoo, or finding a dealership to buy your first car.  When your mind is fully engaged time seems to slow... sometimes to an agonizing crawl.

   If you agree with how Einstein described space and time (and the number of people who don't drops daily) then what we experience while waiting makes no sense:

• Amazon packages don't approach the speed of light (no matter what Amazon wants you to believe).
• The total mass of animals at the zoo never approaches infinity (though new exhibits open all the time).
• Car dealerships are going nowhere even though better ways to sell cars exist.

   You might be wondering why our perception of time slows while we're waiting.

   It might be very simple.

   Our mind's aren't always in agreement...  let me rephrase that.

   The conscious part of the mind and the unconscious part of the mind aren't always on good terms.  They don't always agree about what's interesting and they don't always agree about the next course of action we should take.

   When they are in agreement we experience something rare.

   A whole mind.

   You might be wondering what having a whole mind (even for a short time) means.

   That also might be very simple.

   And it's the perception of both minds shared in a way that's the best possible combination of them both.  If you don't like waiting then perceiving time like your unconscious might be unbearable.

   It might even be excruciating.

   But it's the only way we have for now to add more time to the day.

   I don't think I've explained that backwards.

   If I did my only option is to find a black hole to travel somewhere in time and hopefully explain it again.

   That statement was almost uncertainly backwards.