Italian
What afflicts humans today, more than in the past, is “fatigue.” A term to be understood as deep exhaustion, loss of vitality and enthusiasm, absence of will, and perhaps even boredom. To overcome or avoid this negative feeling, we have started to organize not only our time but also our activities and our work around the paradigm of avoidance.
It works a bit like in crime movies, when the captain asks the tired and violent hero to hand over his gun and badge. “Take a vacation!”, our friends tell us. They advise us not to continue living under stress, because this inevitably leads to burnout: that well-known phenomenon where you end up hating what you chose to do, angrily attacking the unfortunate ones you were supposed to listen to or help.
Today the entire social organization is based on avoiding fatigue and burnout. The paradox, however, is that in doing so, overall activity and efficiency are reduced, leading to the collapse of the very structures that should support us. We try to avoid the collapse not by injecting new energy, but by further reducing the remaining energy.
There is, however, a way to escape the trap of avoidance. And this way is time.
Seven centuries before Christ, the philosopher Anaximander said that time brings order to things. This principle proves true not only in quantum physics but also in the biological time of our lives. This is a finite, linear time.
But there is another time: that of memory. The time of memory is a dimension without order or rules; it is occasional, random, and will never lead you to close the circle of memories. It moves back and forth, up and down, wherever it pleases, without boundaries and limitations.
Above all, it requires very little energy because it regenerates and repairs itself spontaneously. It is a time that is both finite and infinite, which never stops and draws energy from a mysterious source: a kind of dark, unconscious matter that occupies much more vital space than we are able to see and understand.
If we learn to use the time of memory, we can stay in things and give energy back to what we do. It is only in this way that we can avoid that collapse which, otherwise, we ourselves provoke with apathy and resignation.
