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Time Feels Different When You Look Back

2026-06-07 by admin 1 Comment

Time is weird.

We live inside of it every single day and somehow it’s still one of the hardest things to wrap your head around. Some days drag forever. Others are gone before you even realized they started. And when you’re in the middle of working toward something, a goal, a better version of yourself, anything, it almost never feels like it’s happening. You wake up, go through the day, go to sleep. Repeat. Nothing seems to change. But that’s the thing about time. It doesn’t announce what it’s doing. It just quietly does it.

Because when you actually stop and look back, the difference is there. The challenges that once felt like they were going to swallow you whole look smaller from a distance. Not because they weren’t real, but because you made it through them. Moments that felt completely ordinary at the time, a random decision, a conversation, a day you almost wrote off, end up being the ones that actually mattered. You were living what would eventually become a memory and you had no idea which parts were going to stick.

So maybe that’s the whole point. You’re not going to feel the growth while it’s happening. You’re not supposed to. You just keep showing up, stay consistent on the days when nothing feels like it’s working, and trust that time is doing something with all of it. It always is.

The Original Is Unfaithful to the Translation

2026-06-02 by admin Leave a Comment

"The original is unfaithful to the translation." Jorge Luis Borges
(Jin, 2026)

“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

I came across this quote recently and couldn’t stop thinking about it.

At first, it sounds backwards.

We’re taught that the original is the truth. The source. The version closest to reality. Everything else is simply an interpretation.

But maybe that’s the point.

The moment we experience something, we begin translating it.

A photograph is a translation of a moment.

A memory is a translation of an experience.

A story is a translation of a feeling.

Even this post is a translation of a thought that existed only in my head a few minutes ago.

No matter how carefully we try to preserve something, parts of it are always lost. Other parts become clearer. The result is never identical to what came before.

Maybe that’s why I enjoy photography.

Not because it perfectly captures reality, but because it doesn’t.

Every image is incomplete. Every frame leaves something outside the edges. Every photograph becomes a different version of the moment it came from.

The same is true for memories.

Years later, we remember the feeling of a place more than the details. We remember a conversation differently than the person who shared it with us. We revisit old photos and realize we’ve been carrying a slightly different version of the past all along.

Nothing stays exactly as it was.

And maybe it was never meant to.

Instead of trying to preserve moments perfectly, I’ve started appreciating the ways they change over time. The stories we tell ourselves. The meanings we discover later. The details we missed the first time around.

Every translation is imperfect.

But sometimes that’s where the beauty is.

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