So, I was a pretty weird little kid. I'm still weird, but I was advanced in weirdness for my age. For instance, I learned a little bit of the least common multiple rule by using my fingers. And I found great delight in the fact that I knew what square roots were. I was also the kid that peed in front of a couple making out on the beach, the kid that tried to "fly" by tying a sash around his neck to a support beam in his house and jumping off a mini-elephant slide, and the kid that tried to kick an appraiser in the butt for "trying to steal his house." Yeah. I was that kid.
All that to say that I developed some weird theories at the age of ten. One that comes to mind is the "relative timeline" thing. This is how it went: So, I always was amused by the fact that time seemed to fly by at some times, while at other times it moved at an unbearably slow pace. So, in a random way, I devised this thought. Maybe we all experience life at our own pace. Like, we all experience the same reality (with no differences in events or the like), but none of us experiences it at the exact same moment.
Say, for instance, that you hand me a banana. Nothing complicated, just an exchange of delicious fruit. But as I experience that, you could, in your mind, be at a totally different point of life doing something completely unrelated, like losing your first tooth or getting a haircut. You are unbound by my relative time.
In this "relative timeline," this would continue for everyone until everybody collectively reached the end of the existence of time. It just blew my mind to think that I'm the only one really experiencing these events at this point in time.
Well, that's enough of 10-year-old Jordan. Back to being a college student.
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