While humanity was adapted to live in harmony with the rhythm set by nature, the modern world began to force humans with a clock, like a cold counter. There is a deep contradiction between the cells of the body waking up with the first lights of the morning and the ticks of the clock on the wall.
Throughout history, people saw time as a cycle: it begins when the sun rises, slows down when it sets, and turns again when the seasons change. Our body chooses darkness for sleep, daylight for productivity, and the silence of winter for rest. The biological clock, namely the circadian rhythm, actually does not hurry; it preserves its inner balance and slow flow. Within this order, “speed” depends solely on the pace of nature. In fact, a flower does not bloom instantly, and fruit does not ripen in a single day.
When the Industrial Revolution arrived, people took the control of time away from nature and gave it to metal gears and mechanical clocks. The clock severed humanity from nature and adapted it to the working wheels of factories. Time was no longer experienced as a flow; it became a commodity, a product. Time became something that is bought or produced.
With this shift, time was reduced merely to numbers: minutes, seconds, milliseconds... Mechanical time whispered: “Time is money, time must be used efficiently.” The fatigue of the body and the rest needs of the mind were no longer valid excuses against this mechanical counter.
When we entered the digital and internet age, even the mechanical clock was left behind. Now, we are reachable not just during working hours, but 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; we have to be constantly “productive.”
This situation exposed the difference between the flow of time shown by the clock and our inner time in a way never seen before in history. Driven by a constant fear of missing out and a feeling of not being able to catch up, the mind has entered chronic fatigue. The body still breathes with the slow rhythm of the hunter-gatherer or agricultural society from ten thousand years ago; yet the mind is suffocating with the speed of machines.
The clash between biological time and mechanical time is actually a war waged by human nature against itself. The speed and relentless flow of the modern world alienates humans from their inner voice, that is, from the capacity for deep thought and living in the moment.
Perhaps the real issue is to listen to the old and slow memory of the body instead of obeying the control of clocks. Because the mind can escape the gears of time only when it slows down. When the mind finds its true rhythm, it can truly create, deepen, and exist.

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