Digital clock melting over wooden table with neon lighting
A surreal melting digital clock glows with neon lights on a wooden table

A term that annoys me is time lapse, to be sure:

So…

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What’s a word or phrase that annoys you?
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it annoys me because it’s an oxymoron. Time is ecstatic. Lapse is a dynamic. Its interpretive sense.So,

The passing of time is not good for some. It’s bad for me often opportunities lapse before Time does its parade?

Lapsed time is a nag it never supports it yells going going gone, you couldn’t ever catch it saying I’ll be waiting for you.

Switch it off and stop measuring your activities by lapsed time. Measure your activities by enjoyment, it will compress time and lecture it on lapsing for which you will be rewarded with Glee as you take it as it comes.

Still photography

A contender for enjoyment is still photography. Unlike that video that stalks you still photography caresses you. It takes its time or rather it does what it does. It is there to be enjoyed. It doesn’t demand an agenda. You may have it in your control and enjoy it at your pace and leisure.

A moment

Yes a moment is worry and available to be sealed with a kiss, a pet, a stroking of your back, a tickling under your chin, a brief eye. Do I catch y’all but no time lapse? The agenda is yours.