Kids, ducks and the Queen

Everybody knows how relative time is but yet that concept as a universal measurement plays such an important role in our lives. We measure, plan, find, lose, spend and even steal time but it means nothing in reality and no one has been able to train time to serve us.

Being without V for a week seemed such a long time that I had even forgotten how he looked like. During that time I had started to drink coffee with milk which made him really surprised of how much I had changed. Well, drinking coffee and drinking it BLACK is actually a crucial part of our relationship, but since school coffee has recently become from horrible to undrinkable, extreme measures were needed to be taken.

Now the time has started to go on full speed again, since we found out that we got accepted to a university in England. That means a lot of paper work, finding summer jobs and also getting rid of all the stuff in our apartment. But at the same time I am super excited about going and when I leave the practical worries out, there is even too much time until August. 

What makes me sad to leave, is the awesome opportunity to teach piano to two adorable little girls and the time with them is incredibly valuable. These couple of hours every week have made me realize how sharing your knowledge and passion is the best way to invest your time and instead of taking something out from you, it doubles everything that you have. 

And another important and responsible hobby we have taken upon us is feeding ducks since time has absolutely no mercy to those beautiful birds that have arrived here too early. Sun is already shining, but the ice has only leaved partially. So we try to go there every day with bread and seeds and speed up the time for them. Did you actually know that ducks must eat around 1/5 of their body weight?  That means that when people occasionally throw a few slices of white bread (with extremely low nutrition value) in the water, there is no risk to spoil the ducks. So don’t be scared.

 Yep time is how we experience life and it’s not like we could stop doing it all of a sudden. However, I am really fascinated about cultures without any time concept, for example Native American Hopi language which is described as: "no general notion or intuition of time as a smooth flowing continuum in which everything in the universe proceeds at equal rate, out of a future, through the present, into a past". Pretty cool, huh.