I hadn’t experienced timelessness for a very long time. The most time I remember being in this state was during childhood and my teenage years. And it happens less and less with time.
So what is timelessness? It is that state of contentment where you feel just balanced, just right with whatever you are doing at the moment and it feels as if time has stopped, as if you are outside of it. For me this happened yesterday. I had a very nice dinner with a wonderful friend of mine and then, I started walking home. I had a great time, it was a perfect Chicago night, and nothing mattered. I was walking through the streets of beautiful Lincoln Park and everything seemed perfect. I did not rush anywhere, I wasn’t feeling nervous that I had thins to do. I just was.
This was the state of freedom from all the everyday constrictions that we put on ourselves. It was the same state when we were little and playing with the other kids just immersing ourselves into the game and not caring about time, problems or the grownups. It was the same state when were teenagers doing some cool or crazy (I will not specify, but you pick examples from your experience) and we didn’t care.
Have we forgotten how to be children? Have learned too well the skill of stress that keeps us away from experiencing timelessness?