I like to think of them as disordered relationship with time. So you talked about nostalgia as a disordered form of memory, because nostalgia is something that remembers the great things and does not remember the bad things. Or disordered memory on the inverse looking like shame, where there's just this whole that your past has over you. I think describing these as disordered ways of relating to time is exactly right.
If only you had 15 more minutes, or were 5 years younger, or a year into the future — then, things would be better. Maybe even *you* would be better.
But maybe time is more than a sparring partner. More than something you curse or see as a thief. It might just be an integral part of what it means to be human.
In today's episode, we discuss with Dr. James K. A. Smith what it might look like to *partner* with time. We talk about Jamie's new book, How to Inhabit Time, and how we can learn to appreciate the fleeting, ephemeral moments of this life.