new year – Ayunda Damai

Pause, Blink, and It’s 2023: The Distorted Time Perception During and After The Covid-19 Pandemic

Time paused in 2020, and ever since, someone has been pressing the fast-forward button for a bit too long to the extent that the last three years felt more like a blur. Isn’t it weird how three years have never felt so long while you were experiencing it, but now it all seems like it’s flying away so fast once it ended?

How we perceive and experience time, or time perception, is often mind-boggling. Even when the “duration” of time itself is the same for everyone (e.g. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, etc), it was proved in the 2010 research by Sackett and Meyvis that some days may feel longer or shorter based on several factors, such as our emotions or the number of activities that differ from our routines, because time is subjective. Fear and happiness could make time goes faster, while boredom may slow it down. When we stick to a certain routine, after a while, time will go quicker without us noticing. But spruce things up a little, and at that moment, time wouldn’t go as hurriedly.

However, the way these last three years went is more extreme than just an hour flying by or a day slipping away. Instead of flying by or slipping away, time was distorted, with it feeling both very fast and very slow simultaneously. In this case, our time perception during the pandemic could be more accurately defined by another keyword: Temporal disintegration.

New Year Resolution

Happy New Year, guys!!! Ini adalah tulisan pertamaku di 2017. Tahun 2016 telah menjadi tahun yang memorable bagiku. Dan aku berharap 2017 akan menjadi lebih baik daripada tahun-tahun sebelumnya. So, di tulisan kali ini aku akan menulis resolutions-ku di tahun 2017 ini.

Happy new year 2017

Aku ingin lebih rajin menulis, apapun itu. Menulis blog, cerpen, pokoknya menulis deh! Oya, dengan lebih sering menulis, aku juga berharap blog-ku lebih dikenali banyak orang.
Lebih menjaga kesehatan dengan olahraga dan makan teratur. Karena aku sepertinya punya penyakit lambung yang kadang-kadang kambuh saat aku makan tidak teratur.
Belajar memasak lebih sering bersama mamski.
Membaca buku lebih banyak. Terutama buku berbahasa Inggris.
Try much more new things. Mungkin seperti melatih skill make up (mamski yang jadi modelnya, hehehe..), crafting yang belum pernah aku lakukan, dll.
Lebih rajin bermain piano di luar jam les. Apalagi tahun ini aku mau ikut ujian royal lagi untuk grade 3.

So, itu resolutions-ku di tahun 2017. Kalau resolutions kalian apa? Beri tahu aku di comment di bawah ini.. Setelah ini aku juga akan menulis postingan tentang liburanku di Jakarta selama seminggu kemarin. Nantikan ya.. Byee.!