Today life is on fast forward. Events race by. There's never enough time to get everything done. Things fall off the table. And as we get older, the days roll by ever-faster.
Life is frantic.
Slowing down the clock Many years ago, in my reckless youth, I was zooming along the autoroute southeast of Paris on my motorbike and crashed full-force into the back of an illegally parked Citro e n van. I snapped from daydreaming to full attention. Time oozed along. Because I was living totally in the present, much as I had when I was a child. I was fully aware.