In my essay in the Paper Jam ’s December issue, I reflected on learning that we only have limited time and what that means for communication and relationships. In the context of relationships, “…It would be easier to imagine anything else than not associating with the other person.” Recent events, however, mean that fully unpacking and elaborating upon its implied depth is both worth doing and necessary. As it stands, the description has an incredible amount of dimension, but that dimension...

The arrow of time is a concept in theoretical physics that essentially describes the flow of time as occurring in one singular direction in our lived experience, despite the equations of physics being time-independent. We, too, can freely conceptualize both the past and the future, the former’s moments and the latter’s possibilities. Starting in mid-October, I had a realization initiated by the large number of friends I lost touch with, and, later, the knowledge that people I knew were going...