1,000ft/s

"Father time" is often depicted as this decrepit old man with a long gray beard and staff. I used to accept this image without a second thought until it finally dawned on me that time flies and often kicks up a lot of dust in the process. So to imagine time as that old man seems to be inaccurate, right? But said image of the old man is more imposing and evocative of wisdom. A speeding rabbit would be insulting and riddled with naïveté, right? So the serious old man stands firm and strong and wise. One is less likely to mess with an elder given their experience and this sort of respect that they automatically draw from younger generations. At least, I think so. If I were to speak with someone who's 75 years old, I would most likely ask them their life story and listen as attentively as I could.

As to help me deal with the savage forward flow of time. You know, the one that doesn't care if you need to slow down. It'll just keep going; deaf, blind, mute, savage, uncaring, and wise.

It's a bit of drag when time just zooms past you leaving you wet and bewildered. Or in the dust and confused. But this probably has something to do with a boomerang effect in which actions and experiences repeat themselves in varying degrees of intensity, upon returning to a particular spot. You could say building up tolerance to certain events but that doesn't mean that things get easier; you just become wiser. You'll still feel when those events and experiences reoccur but you'll feel differently.

Time can wear the body down but it can't wear you down. That doesn't seem to make sense on the surface but beyond the surface it starts to make more sense. If you accept that the physical you is not the defining you. I can't say who the defining you is because that always changes

Time is a lot of things but certainly not an illusion. That decrepit old man doesn't have to be your master or a specter two steps behind you. It can be a source of motivation or that fire at the bottom of the rope that makes climbing up the rope much more urgent, or annoying.