A visual autopsy of the only resource everyone wastes equally.
Time is the one thing you can't buy, borrow, save, return, or unsubscribe from. And yet we treat it like an optional side quest.
We underestimate long stretches, overestimate short ones, and somehow believe "future me" is going to fix everything.
Spoiler: future you is just present you with worse knees.
Humans evolved to track seasons, not 8-hour workdays or the 42 minutes you just lost to scrolling. Your internal clock is basically a sundial taped to a Roomba: wildly inconsistent and occasionally upside-down.
Press start, then try to stop it at exactly 10 seconds.
Imagine the universe as a 24-hour clock. Earth forms at midnight. Life appears around 4 AM. Dinosaurs show up at 10 PM. Modern humans? 11:59:59 PM.
Congratulations: you are one second. Not metaphorically ā literally.
don't blink. that's your entire species.
scroll to compress 13.8 billion years into emotional damage
Everything explodes. No one is around to complain.
A ball of lava that will eventually host brunch.
Microbes appear. They immediately start ruining things.
Nature hits "shuffle" on creature design.
Big lizards. Poor long-term planning.
Brains start growing. Trouble begins.
People discover wheat ā accidentally invent work.
Humans choose pollution in exchange for slightly comfier chairs.
Society's collective attention span evaporates instantly.
Time becomes a theoretical concept.
instead of doing something productive.
you are here ā a microscopic dot pretending it runs the place.
Feels infinite because your memory was still working and summers lasted 40 years.
Trauma speedrun.
The decade you tell yourself you'll remember fondly later (you won't).
Time starts accelerating like a BMW on a stolen catalytic converter.
Known scientifically as "oh god slow down."
You finally understand everything, and no one asks you anything.
time flies when you're dying.
Your brain treats 5 minutes like 5 hours if it sucks.
Your brain treats 5 hours like 5 minutes if you're hyperfocused.
Planning for the future is just hallucinating structure.
"Later" is a myth you tell yourself.
Multitasking is just doing two things badly at once.
No one knows what they're doing. Especially not you.
Time is neutral. You are chaotic.
The issue isn't that the days are too short ā it's that your brain is running 47 parallel tabs, none of which are labeled.
Time won't behave. Neither will you.
The bar is low. Trip over it gracefully.
Your dopamine receptors need cloud updates.
the clock is ticking. so what? tick louder.
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