Loss of Sense
Sometimes time seems frozen. I'll see a picture of a friend or acquaintance that I've not seen in person for decades and their image from days past is fresh in my mind. It hardly seems like years since we last hung out or saw one another. If the person means more than just a passing friendship, the effect of stopping time seems more vivid. Perhaps a defense mechanism, or another manifestation of holding on to something ephemeral. The technology we now have incorporated into our daily lives adds to this phenomena as well as creates additional twists of reality. Scroll through a host of Facebook posts or even a lengthy list of Facebook friend pictures and experience most of the people in your current and past life all flashed before your eyes in a mass of slideshow moving parts. Most likely most of these people know a limited few of the other faces they are on this moving billboard with. Yet the juxtaposition of their smiles and grimaces makes for a fascinating kaleidosc