Author: nadinmai

I finally had a chance to read Carlo Rovelli’s L’ordre du temps, which I had heard about in a podcast but never actually bought because there was always something else that interested me more. But my fascination with time has returned. It came almost naturally after 2009. The longer I had to live with PTSD, the more I became aware of the fact that I was “out of time”. Regardless of my individual background, what I used to share with others was the perception of time. Even though it’s much more complex than this, and that there are situations in which our sense of time changes, we can nevertheless agree on some basic ‘rules’ (here in the West): time flows; the arrow goes from left to right; there is a past, a present, and a future; we cannot stop time. The artificial sense of time which we created with the help of calendars and clocks has been (and still is) profitable...