Time Loop

I call it Time Reel or Reel. The symbol is the movie reel.

Have you ever seen the movie "Harry and the Hendersons?" Or "The Apple Dumpling Gang?" Yes. When I think of the movie reel, I see myself walking in a movie theater during years before me and watching the film.

Time and Space have very different meanings for a mind like mine. It's weird, and without careful study, how would I know my perception is different?

If you don't like cake, then just say, "I don't like cake." No one cares if you prefer chocolate or coconut. We don't discuss topics like these as they are easily mistaken as tomato tomahto. Yet the consequences do hurt. They mean something. They mean a whole world to someone who is different.

Time-Space. 

The series of time films running in parallel. Every movie theater playing version of events. Space is trapped in the timeline.

In this world, spatial coordinates do not exist. They only live in one moment in time. Like a movie reel. If you want to be in the forest looking for the hunt, then fast forward in the timeline to reach the forest. If you want the ocean, then hop on over to the next movie and find the place within the timeline.

Branching and parallel timelines are stored because they hold all the information. In Disney movies, I find the movies "Finding Nemo" and "Finding Dory" are good illustrations on how we may conceptualize this. Same world but different places to explore within the film. Or instead of sequel movies, we have renditions of the same film.

My mind stores timelines like they are candy. When I look from the living room to the kitchen, my mind automatically stores how long it takes to walk from Point A to Point B. I see every step while walking. If I want to pull up the stove, I see myself fast forwarding from the chair to the fridge then the stove. This is how I pull up places.

Through prayers, I have received promptings to get into monitor screen recording. As often with my own personal insights, they take time to digest and understand. I have also received insight into writing stories. Each of these insights are about capturing. 

When I record my work, I am creating a timeline for myself. As I review the film, my mind memorizes the series of events like a sponge. Then I index the information. Stories are the same.

By seeing the world as new beginnings, my anxiety goes down and settles firmly inside my mind. I just say the word, "beginning" and my mind snaps to focus on the task.

I will not know how things will go until I experienced them. 

By structuring my work as new beginnings, the timeline is reduced to one moment. As I record my work, I am giving myself the opportunity to stitch the timeline later. As I can review what happened, and see objectively what I did.

If the burden of the timeline is on me, then the balance is very delicate. As when I am working, my mind is snapping snapshots like crazy. If I offload that burden to my computer, my mind does not need to be so zealous in capturing each moment, and I will relax. Taking snapshots at regular intervals.

I love being in the moment. 

These challenges have taxed my life for a very long time. For years that is all I handled.

I am just a man struggling in a hostile world.

If the world was just a big giant rock, so tiny compared to our star, then I wouldn't know what to do. Through my faith, the bitter is sweetened by our loving Heavenly Father. I connect on a daily occurrence. I receive help in different ways. I see my Savior as my mentor and my friend. I can see myself finding sweetness through the development of my tried soul. Light refracting as I grow.

Words are powerful. I find myself relying on language. When I see complex information in transition, I use two words.

Neither is when events occur that are not bound together but interact. Like bricks to build up a house, or wheels that are bolted to the rim.

'Both' are when events flow one into the other. As one muscle contracts, the other expands causing one arm to move. Or when the sea bay salty current picks up. These forces are reacting to various temperatures and other factors in the ocean. Moving as one. A superposition.

When I encounter the two types, I say one of the words in my head and my mind focuses in a specific way.

The time reel, or shorten to 'reel', is one word I utilize to focus my mind on the world. This focus is about aligning with my natural affinity with time. Creating or developing software is a spatial task. By creating 'reels' I am interacting with space and constructing multiple timelines. Each timeline gives me access to a portion of space and inhabit spatial information. Without the time symbol, I will just blindly flounder. By recording my work and writing stories, I am organizing the information that harmonizes with who I am inside.

How do I write stories? Am I narrating development beforehand? Like a fantasy story?

Well. I don't know. It is still a developing idea.

Writing stories are not that far fetched for developers.

Agile methodology is centered around the client's story. What the user will see, what they want and how they will use the software. They split each task into smaller stories and then use sprints to finish the task. The story is central to focus because it creates empathy, condenses a linear history and focuses the team on the minimal viable product for each sprint. By completing the smaller stories they are building up the software.

This is where I smile. As the rubber ducky method works for developers. Talk to a rubber ducky and get your thoughts out. The classic methodology everyone jokes about, but secretly uses.

As I write for this blog I process information. Agile methodology will probably become my next step. I may not adopt every practice entailed, but I will adapt the different agile practices that will help my coding style.

All things refined, and all things improved upon. Let's take the next step.