11 Jun You experience time most intensely when you forget it

It seems like a paradox: you experience time most intensely when you forget it.

To my wife’s despair in the past, I like to take the unknown way. I don’t think it’s a personal merit or a personal weakness, my father did it too. Incidentally, also to the despair of my anxious mother.
For love, my father has curbed his adventurous spirit. He didn’t necessarily have to take a plane – mother was afraid of it and Belgium is also nice. He didn’t have to go out on his own – mother didn’t like being alone at home, so they always went out together.

Middle Way
Anyway, my wife also has to live with a man who likes to go the other way. Now we have found something for that, call it the middle way. I first ask her if she likes the direction I propose. I have a good topo map in my phone that protects us from getting lost and she has a good outfit for when we have to cross the rocks.

‘The other way’ does not offer you security and that is exactly what makes it so much fun for me. You don’t know where you will end up, you don’t know what you will encounter, every moment is new and often exciting and you will have to orient yourself and make decisions over and over again.

However, a familiar road can also be fun. Then you have anticipation. You are (almost) sure that what you will encounter, will be the postcard you remember from last time. You don’t have to search and you avoid boring and disappointing paths to maybe get to that one beautiful spot.

If you always take the unknown road, the known way can be something else.

Adventure with the wheelchair
When my mother was gone, I went on an adventure with my father. Adapted to his circumstances, so with such an impossible walker instead of the plane and later with the wheelchair, but still on an adventure. The wheels rolled into the loose sand dunes while we visited the dolmens in Drenthe. Sometimes I could just guide my father to the car after an escapade. I never heard him complain. He looked with a smile at his grandchildren climbing on the stones and made jokes.

We forgot the time.

The art of forgetting time
Time surfing is the art of forgetting time. Not only during exciting activities but also at work. Actually, you do both at the same time: you are both aware of the time and the beacons you have set and at the same time you fully immerse yourself in the activity.
Time surfing gives a different experience of time. One of satisfaction and pleasure. One that is free to take the familiar road or to take the other direction. In both cases, however, with all your being.
The reason that this open free spirit arises in Time Surfing is because the guidelines create peace, both peace in the way you work and peace in your head. You could also say that the guidelines make you fully available for each new activity.

*This post has been automatically translated from Dutch