Hard to explain how much of an impact running has on my sense of time in general. Last weekend went running twice, than played soccer for about 2 hours. During these periods of running, somehow I was able to cram a lot more activity into my schedule than normal. Whereas I normally will sit around on the weekend, look for a restaurant, potentially go eat dinner with friends, finally end up walking around for a long period of time, during periods of massive exercise, quick footsteps, I seem to do many more things. Almost like I spend less time on one specific activity, and also am slightly more involved in planning things out. In addition things don’t seem to hit me as deeply since I am in a strange sort of haze after the exercise and after period that fills up 50% of my brain. To put it one way, I think that during exercise, even more competitive sports like indoor soccer, massive amounts of energy are released, and afterwords you are in an immense state of relaxation, I’m not quite sure whether the after period should be called concentration or blissful distraction, although I think a major benefit of it is that it seems to kick the unconscious part of my mind into higher gear. Another way of saying it would be that it seems like I am able to hold a thought for a longer period of time in mind while being occupied in other ways. When I stop working out hard, on the other hand, my reality almost seems to speed up at times, in a sense that the greater thoughts that I am holding on to during time periods are cut down, and instead my thoughts tend to skip around more quickly as does my reality. So I guess on the positive side, exercise, through relaxation etc, can lead to a sort of blind persistence where you are hard to budge, perhaps because you are too tired from jumping around, on the other hand, for myself at least, exercise makes me antisocial in a sense that I don’t feel as many sudden ‘urges’ to do things, given that I am quite content in my sitting state at the time. My objective in exercise is obviously not to render my self in to a motionless potato, but rather to clear from my thoughts many of the distractions which seem to be less prevalent in a more relaxed state.
对于我的中文,上个周末,遭遇了很多联系汉语的机会,跟工作的同喜,跟我的朋友,而且跟别的大连人,也学过新的字可是不知道怎么写。很多新学的字都是大连话。 为了学习汉字,在书店买了一本中文文章的课文,内容有几个有名的中国人的作者在写文章。每个文章也有英文翻译。昨天看到了的,作者在表达他跟他喜欢的书的关系,他写的他非常喜欢买书,可是不爱借他们,因为买的时候才能领情。
July 7, 2009 at 10:24 am
trying to pin dad down on trip to china in august. i emailed you to know if you would rather use the free miles for coming home for a visit. sounds like you are getting involved in community. Great! Please let me know asap! School might be interesting..I love you