The Extended Duration

Week 1 has passed and looking through for what I should be doing next week... Time flew really quickly from week 1 and already week 2 is heading my way. The duration feels shorter when you first experience a new progress or schedule in your life, or maybe that's just me. Then probably after a few more weeks, it'll just feel repetitive with the same classes and similar coursework. It's like we were programmed to become uncanny, going through school like it is a must, study, eat, then sleep. Do we have control or does the whole education bounded world we seem to live in (well for those who do go to school)?

Long durations is really both mind and body compelling. Not that I yearn for long durations in my life, but there are times when things just carried away for too long. Whether it's just a simple panning within a movie or video and nothing really changes in the scene or an actual video art where everything is very settle, it creates this subtly emotionless atmosphere. Eyes perhaps get too deep into the scene and somehow it is like as if I was in a trance. Or somehow the repetitive scenes will cause my body to fiddle around, to gain some attention to something at least versus nothing. The mind would wander if there was no focus in the scene or the focused was just too stable, little to no progress where thoughts become sluggish in speed. I believe we all have limits to long duration, we are all capable of withstanding it. It just depends on the situation, the initial mindset of it all to be able to have limits or endless limitations.

I think the fact that a lot of us depend on senses to perceive (hence perception haha...), we lack the idea of what if we were to perceive our own state without the senses (which is hard). The reason is because, from baby till now we hav been using our five senses everyday of our lives. See, hear, smell, taste, and touch. All are important in the collection of being able to feel and understand the world around us. I think the time when we are most vulnerable, is when we think about the perception of our state. A time when we could be alone, silence generates around us, and our senses of the solitude or lonesome perception grasps onto us. During those times I don't think attention spans are shrinking but perhaps expanding I think. Only because the fact that there are so many things around us that becomes a distraction in our lives.

A boredom state is like when a person has no focus, sleep comes into place (aka the dozing off), or the mind has no interests in whatever that is going on in the world that surrounds us. I guess if boredom was in place, the goal expectation or narrative of something is either not interesting or it is losing the focus where it no longer becomes important or suspenseful for us to continue to watch and sense what is going on.