June 2008

Have you ever wonder why we need to sleep for so long and why we spent one third of our lifetime in slumberland? Can we sleep any slower?

In 1963 Pop artist Andy Warhol produced a film titled ‘Sleep’ which consists of long take footage of John Giorno sleeping for over five hours. Talk about a slow moving film! I am not sure why he made the film, but I think it was Warhol’s excuse for admiring over his lover at the time. The long cult following of this ‘anti-film’ is a strong proof that love and time has an inseparable relationship.

為什麼爱和時間總是剪不斷,理還亂？

It is ironic that a watch company became so well known after its series of advertisements were about the vow of love. We seem to ‘measure’ real love by its length. We would hear couples who have been going out proudly declaring: “oh we have been together for the past 5 years!” And when we see white hair couples holding hands walking on the street: “oh that is so touching. So romantic!”

I don’t question the meaning of love, but why should the measuring index be base on the linear time rather then say, vertical time? i.e. why do we will often ask ‘how long is your love’ rather then ‘how deep is your love’? Since I said pain is usually associated with slow, so having a lengthy love maybe more painful then we want to admit. Perhaps the answer to love is to take it slow but digging deeper into our subconscious? Time is such an abstract notion and is dependent largely on the perception of our mind, I would put all my energy in a love that has ‘depth’ rather then distance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpRFeJEG6_o

Why is it that when we are in-love, time goes by really fast? And time stood still when we are not?

When a man loves a woman at first sight. After a night of passion, they realized they didn’t agree with each other and suffering sets in. The time during their love making went by really fast because they were really enjoying it. But after that love, the pain that came after stretches on, as if time has slowed down a few times. Now why is that?

We can find in science magazine on how our brain function when we are emotional and when we are logical. I am sure there is a logical and emotional explanation of this. But I have not seen any write up on why the perception of time will change. Does that mean when our right emotional brain is in charge, time speeds on, and when our logical left is in charge, time slows down? Isn’t that something the scientist should research on?

我說過我會談談什麼是《痛慢》！因为我不相信有痛快这种感覺。用爱來做比喻，如果你人在熱戀中，你會覺得時間飛逝。一旦你失戀，感受像渡日如年呀！

痛和慢似乎是分不開的。真正值得研究的地方是人的七情六欲与時間快慢的關係～令人玩味。

一對新婚夫妻，因戰亂而被逼分開 。於是許下諾言：“不在乎天長地久，只在乎曾經擁有！”有誰不曾被他們,恍恍如夢的真情所感动？

我质疑爱情难道不是应该很長很慢的去维持的嗎？為什麼在這個年代，爱的真諦也是internet speed？不但快而也多。即然如此，一个人就可以擁有很多个‘曾經’的感情嗎？所谓的天長地久也不過是我们短暫的一生。何来的天地長久？

1992的一則手錶的電視廣告,给了整个时代的人上了一堂對爱觀念錯誤的课。

“擁有的天長地久，只存於一殺那間。”

你在乎嗎？　我很在乎。

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpeTBJdR1Zw