Elastic Stories

Time is elastic, and don't you forget it... as if, right? Like forgetting that you just won the recent 600 million dollar Powerball lottery, or that you just received your 3rd opinion from yet another renouned oncologist that you have about 3-4 months of breath left, if you're really lucky.

The "second" - that peculiar instant of time we all "know" so well, or not so well... depending - envelopes you like a 3-sizes too-small cheap suit, or white on rice, but it is elastic, it can expand and contract, but always (until the balance shifts, being the particular thrust of this communiqué) due to external circumstances of very great, or even sometimes not so great, emergency or calamity or some other instinctive or emotional upset, like the sudden death of your near-and-dear loved one, or a near-fatal and near-death (often) automobile collision, to name just a couple.

We've all heard the story about a guy, any guy, tooling down the interstate in his 2-seater top-down sports car, that is run off the road, and while losing control begins a couple wildly exciting - for the occupant, and spectators alike - counter-clockwise 360's in the middle of the road, only to be flipped over the highway, ejecting the occupant across a couple lanes of traffic, who lands backside-against a tree, yet not even knocked unconscious, who, upon hearing the sound of his - to him - quite out-of-place-for-the-surroundings radio still blaring in the overturned, windscreen-sheared sports car, gets up and casually turns it off, and returns to the relative safety of his new-found-friend, the tree, awaiting whatever is to come next.

No concussions, no broken bones, no contusions, no bleeding, yet from the perspective of every witness, a scene which would most assuredly be a tangled mess of broken glass, twisted metal and bloody body parts, "Uggh! I thought that guy was most definitely a G-O-N-E-R, so you can imagine my amazement to find him alive, whole, and lucid!"

The story the guy tells, is actually more interesting than anything the spectators could recount, but he is almost loathe but certainly reticent to detail it, for fear the information imparted to him then could be diffused, dilated, leaked out or even lost.

But, to hear him tell it, "Time is Elastic, and the second expands, to be filled, fully filled, by consciousness, giving it more than enough time to consider the situation in detail, from many angles, even as those 3 or 4 seconds (from the vantage point of the spectators) seemed like 30 or 40 at least, if not more."

What if, one could do this for oneself at will - create such circumstances internally that the second could expand, or contract, as desired... much more information would be available and potentially extracted than is ordinary in the non-elastic time we usually live. Information is Energy, but that is for another time.