My four-year-old sister often has completely unprovoked hissy fits, and this time in particular was about how she doesn't want to grow up. Ever. "My advice to you?" her father/ my stepdad told her. "Stay a kid as long as you can."

I immediately wanted to call bull. Was it not you who had just recently been bitching at her to grow up, to learn to ( Read more... )

Time is a scalar quantity. It has magnitude, but no direction. You cannot have negative time, and you cannot accelerate or decelerate it. It just is, whether you like it or not.
I don't think I do.
I don't think I like being a train on a one-way track, going over bridges and through tunnels but never really having any control. I don't think I like ( Read more... )