Daily Prompt – February 4, 2026

I alway knew there would be times that a prompt would come up that I would have already written about and here is one, at least in part. Because I despise repeating myself, I encourage you to go read “I’m late, I’m late, I’m late for a very important date!” – The White Rabbit. I dive pretty deep into my relationship with time in that writing.

As for how this influences my perspective on life, I think it has a lot to do with my ability to see things from multiple perspectives and not get mired in my own. The reason I say this is because I am so aware of how skewed my perception of time is, I’ve learned i have to understand how others are perceiving it as well. It doesn’t fix the internal responses to time that I describe. I will still always feel off about time, either too much or not enough of it. But because I learn to understand why others are telling me not to worry when I think I don’t have enough or remind me of things I need to do when I think I have to much time and don’t know what to do with it, I have also learned to see how others are interacting with the world in general.

Additionally, because I struggle so much with the concept of time, I vacillate between feeling like things happened too long ago when they were really recent or even losing track of the day they happened, conflating one day with another and feeling like things were incredibly recent or current when they happened long time ago. This is great in someways and horrible in others. In my relationships it can be great, my husband and I have been together a bit over 10 years now and in a lot of ways it feels like we’ve always been together and in others its like how the hell has it been 10 years already. It also makes it hard because things that are easy now might not have always been easy but I don’t have a good recall of when they became easy and that puts an odd pressure in other places because I am very data driven so I want the same results repeatedly. However, it’s really hard to know if you are following the same timeline when you don’t remember it.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the other writing. I hope this is even remotely what this prompt was about. I hate time, it’s a blight on my brain.