Fly Fishing: Time Flies

How fast does time pass? That depends on your present activity! Time is generally measured by distance or a clock. In our minds time is also measured by our “concept of time” which is directly and highly correlated to the activity you are participating in. What you are doing at the time dictates how you measure time. If you’re in a euphoric state, the “juice” causes euphoria and you don’t care about time. At the end of the day you are thinking, “we just got here.” You never noticed you were hungry at noon because you didn’t know when noon was. You eat your lunch at six pm on your way back to the car thinking, “where the hell did the day go?!” As you take your waders off and break down your rod, you check your watch and now you’re back to analog time. You already start to feel the pressure of the next five days. You think “you always have the weekend to look forward to, don’t you?” Your backside is on the hot car seat by now and your hand blisters when it hits the steering wheel, you mumble and from now on you count every second in analog time. Friday is coming and you can again get into that timeless place that fishing provides. Then you hear at 2 pm Friday afternoon that family from another state is coming for the weekend. You realize you are not going fishing and you feel that sinking feeling in your stomach; the week had already seemed like a year! How do you make time fly now?! What next? The next thing you know you have a fly rod in your hand, you are fishing, nothing else matters and time flies again.