When you watch a movie, you see a movement that does not exist. Nobody walks from one place to another, nothing is displaced from here to there in a continuous motion. It's just a set of photographs joined together, one after the other, and projected on a screen. The illusion of movement is given by the speed of the projection, that is greater than your eye's ability to perceive each photogram. Everybody knows this, it's no great discovery. But... have you ever thought that also your life could work in a similar way? The time that you feel like "flowing", may be an experience you are having in one single instant, after which you pass to the next one. Like in one photogram after the other in a film, there is no actual movement. It's just a sort of "quantum leap" from one position to another. But this only a reflection, though. It changes nothing in your life. Yet, if you really think about it, you might find it quite intriguing.
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