Tazmanian Time Warp

I hope you led with love today. Let's get into it. 

This will be a long read. Let me cook... I promise there will be a full circle.

Time is subjective to each individual reality. I feel time different than you do. We both feel time different than the next person. It's the one thing that will forever be elusive, but as a collective we treat it as calculated and linear. 

Example: Time zones are constructs we use to calculate the rotation of Earth on its axis, in relation to its orbit around the sun. It's a way for us all to feel we are operating within the same agreed upon constraints about time, even though around the world we are experiencing the same events at varying moments. Sunrise/sunset... An eclipse... New Years...

Special relativity and time dilation show that speed and gravity affect how time is perceived to the observer. So, someone moving at light speed would experience time much slower than someone on Earth. Likewise, someone on Jupiter would experience time slower than someone on any other planet in our solar system... except the sun, of course. Given these parameters, albeit the minute difference, someone on Mount Everest with lower gravity would technically experience time faster than someone at sea level. Hypothetically, someone who "feels" their day went by fast is experiencing time different than the next person who has been counting the minutes. It's all subjective.

Over the past 7 years, I have experienced a tumultuous relationship with time... Pleasant and challenging. Just under one month ago, I was laid off from my job of six years. Three months ago, I started sewing clothing for the first time in my life; and have since designed and created ten garments from scratch. Four months ago, I initiated a successful event at work and was able to secure my first live interview promoting the event at one of the top new stations in the region. Two years ago, I started creating music again after a three-year lapse due to a consecutive-heartbreak related depression. Healing is beautiful... I wish them all love and blessings... Five/six years ago, I started Sophron Entertainment for my music and video production work, as well as The ArkHouse for my e-commerce, drop-shipping apparel... Of which I also disbanded until the encounter I mentioned in my first blog post, New Beginnings. Seven years ago, I moved back home from California and landed a position right before the pandemic... Time and I are formidable frenemies, but I have nothing but admiration, respect, and curiosity. 

Starting this garment, which was the first since my lay off, allowed me to contemplate time with every stitch. It helped me realize how far I have come from the wide-eyed little dreamer in Brooklyn, living in a one-bedroom apartment with my grandmother and mother. It revealed the moments in my life when time seemed to crawl by while exposing the moments time moved a little too fast. Upon the completion of this suit, I was in shock I created so many garments within the first three months of me learning how to sew. How did I have the time? ... Well, what is now clear to me is that you can and will make the time for what you genuinely want to experience.

While constructing this suit, which I am as equally obsessed with as the rest of my creations, I decided to rewind time by moving forward. I redesigned The ArkHouse website, I started the ArkHaus blog, I reminisced about the Raven's logo/apparel I created and applied for jobs in that vein, I continued creating new music (which has been refreshing), and re-released two old songs I pulled off of DSPs during my depression (I'm That Nigga and Eye of the Storm).

While time has always been a turbulent topic of conversation, and it seems to move faster for me as I grow older, I have grown an immense respect for its ambiguity. I don't think we are supposed to understand it, per se. I think we are just supposed to ride its waves and ensure we feel fulfilled when our respective hour-glasses run out. 

How are you going to spend your time? 

Thank you for reading and please decide to lead with love.

See you next time! 😉