How can I make time slow down?
I turn 25 today. And time is passing so quickly, I’m terrified.
I often feel like this, and I’m not 25 yet… Some great answers from Ask Metafilter though.
China's Journey
My students wrote essays on paper so cheap and thin that it felt like the skin of an onion. The brittle pages tore easily; if held to the light, they glowed. The English was flawed, but sometimes that only gave the words more power. “My parents were born in poor farmer’s family,” wrote a young man who had chosen the English name Hunt. “They told us that they had eaten barks, grass, etc. At that time grandpa and grandma had no open minds and didn’t allow my mother to go to school because she is a girl.” Another classmate described his mother: “Her hair becomes silver white, and some of her teeth become movable. But she works as hard as ever.”
This essay gives an account of the changes in China in the past few decades from an English teacher’s point of view. Most of what I hear about is so heavily political, but this shows the more personal side of life in China.
In 1913, Maisel explained, an Oregon state psychiatric institution began to cremate the remains of its unclaimed patients. Their ashes were then stored inside individual copper canisters and moved into a small room, where they were stacked onto pine shelves.
Over time, however, the canisters have begun to react chemically with the human ashes held inside them; this has thus created mold-like mineral outgrowths on the exterior surfaces of these otherwise gleaming cylinders.
