Derek’s Story

Site created on November 12, 2017

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Journal entry by Derek Willingham

It’s always wise to at least try to conceive things from more than one perspective, even if that just gives you a view on why there is some disagreement with others.  An idea popped into my head recently that may help you understand my day-to-day experience, at least a little better.  Maybe “understand” is not the right word… maybe to “more effectively relate to” my daily experience.  I really love watching Youtube these days.  Did you know you can change the play speed of videos you watch?  I’ll hit 2 birds with one stone by linking this video I found on brain seizure.  In this video, try this;  click the gear symbol named Settings, click Playback Speed, and select 1.25.  This makes the video about 19 minutes long.  Afterwards, how do you feel, when this is finally over?  Was it draining, or did it not affect you at all?  Did this change make you feel any difference from watching something normally?  Maybe you can watch it again at normal speed and see if you were able to better process the provided information that was missed the first time through the video.

This is the best idea I currently have to let/push others to conceive things from my personal perspective.  This is like how I experience life, constantly, although that play speed does increase as the day goes on.  I have some days I go into work, I attend meetings, I talk to my wife, I watch TV, etc., so this is obviously not a full experience of what I go through in a day or how I feel at the end of a day, but just for a little bit of perspective for you to absorb.  I’d be interested in how you feel about this, honestly.  Hopefully this video helps YOUR perspective on… everything.

 

https://youtu.be/rAAYQ1exE9Y

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