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I don't really know how to explain it but it just hit me the other day that time is just an illusion. I really can't explain it in words, but I know there are other people who understand what I mean, right?

When you speak to old people what's one thing they all say? 'Cherish your younger years because it will fly by and all of the sudden you will be old like me!' or something along those lines. I was thinking about this concept at work (I do a repetitive manual labour warehouse job) and how every day when I start working I wish to be at home, then I get home at the end of the day and it's like 'did the last 8 hours REALLY happen, or is it just a collection of memories long gone?'. The same with the weekend: 'ugh... I really don't wanna be back at work on Monday. I'll try to make the weekend last as long as possible.', then it flies by and becomes a mere memory that will be completely discarded from my mind by next Friday.

So, realising this, I came to the conclusion that time is just an illusion and doesn't really exist. I mean, where did the past 8 billion years go? Sure, we have physical records, such as fossils and what have you, but did it REALLY exist? Do you get me?

Nothing matters, because the universe 'will' reach a state of zero entropy, and any record of the active universe will be permanently and irreversibly deleted. 'But that's billions of years away, we still have time to enjoy your life now!'. You say the exact same thing about the weekend. Where did the past 8 billion years go?

Does anyone get me?
gpt
>time is just an illusion. I really can't explain it in words
34.8. To the Elementalist, time is an illusion. It simply doesn't exist.

34.9. Time is an illusion brought about by the movement of fragments of consciousness through the Great Fractal.

34.10. Because the sets of perceptual impressions experienced by fragments of consciousness appear to change in a rule-based manner, it seems that time exists and flows at a uniform rate. This is an illusion.

34.11. The illusion of a moving picture on film is created by displaying a large number of still frames in rapid succession. If these frames are displayed rapidly enough, the image on the screen will appear like it is moving. But they aren't - they just appear to, as if in a flipbook.

34.12. Our fragments of consciousness navigate the Great Fractal in a comparable manner.