There was a concept in Physics, which although impressed me at school, I had never fully understood it. The relativity of time said… The main representative of the term was Einstein who was not the absentee of the class, lets say. He obviously found the time too relevant to find two absolute hours to read…
It tooks to me many years to experience, if not to understand, the difference between absolute and relative. A similar dispute had preoccupied me on the subject "truth". You know, that they said: "there is one and only truth or many"; That is, there is an absolute truth or many related; But time is another matter. Too difficult to match physics with philosophy. A lot of knowledge is required… Which, as it is known, is not favored by the lack of oxygen as biology teaches… Or maybe not;
At a thousand meters altitude, let's say, it is possible to understand a concept such as the relativity of time and the two twins traveling in space and things like that; Or maybe socializing with only three hundred people, helps, everyone of them graduates 4of the fourth class of elementary school;
But do not be fooled, the two-day trip with a four-wheel drive vehicle that looks like a kiosk does not help. With three years of living there we can talk… To stay there all the days of a week, in a farmhouse, not in dulac, right; With heating from firewood that burns incompletely in a poorly designed fireplace and not from underfloor heating and heat pumps. With external lighting from the stars of the sky and not the "stars" of the night life with headlights to make the night day, marking huge posters with portraits of singers or stinkers, according to our musical preferences. With two cafes, the competition finally works, selling coffee with meat.
In such a place time acquires another substance. You wake up early in the morning without an alarm clock. Once you used to shout at your mother in town not to make a fuss with the lunch dishes. But I dont know why this happened. It was the cold 5 that blankets could not stop; The rooster which you dream of with wine in your plate or just because you were full of sleep; Either way, you never had to rush to work. Besides, no traffic light was delaying you, at most a herd of sheep and goats, but how many are they; We are not in Texas…
Whatever job you did, it was relaxing, you did not have to manage a lot of people. Either you were a teacher, or a police officer, or grocer, the time did not pass. And at noon, the sleep lasted a long time, A lot, lot time.... Because you had nothing to do; Because the climate is heavy; Because no one bothers you from 3rd floor; Anyway we are talking about many hours of nirvana. The night, when everything is on white the phrase "I walk fast" has lost its meaning… You do not say one - two, one two, You say I sink - I sink, I sink. You do not move only on the horizontal axis but also on the vertical. But also why would you want to hurry; Maybe because you can lose any funny discussion?, Or maybe not to get on the cards or backgammon in the first round?. Even so, the lots will last, you have your time.
And at night, in town, when you take out the key, and you enter in home, there at 1000 meters, you need to find alcohol, to throw in the lock, wait, and then enter the key in the keyhole and open. "Patience and goodbye" as Papagianopoulos said (Greek actor), with the teeth working as an industrial stapler.And still there on 12 o' clock at night you experience the relativity of time when scientists sleep or drink their beer in a pub. You, you keep counting with the clock 7 minutes but the body experience another number of minutes: 27.