Short note: Is everything that appears fixed truly infinite, or do the limits of perception make us think so?
The sentence “everything that appears fixed is infinite” first sounds like a strong claim. But perhaps what it describes is not an absolute truth, but a limit of human perception. A person tends to think that something lasting slowly or for a long time is endless.
We see this in the perception of time. A very happy moment may be short, but leave a long trace. A very hard period may feel as if it will never pass. So the way we perceive time is as decisive as time itself. Then part of what we call stillness is not the result of the outer world, but of our inner measure.
If we lived life in slow motion and had no experience of any other speed, we would probably call it normal. That speed would feel natural. Then we must accept that what we call “normal” today is not absolute, but familiar. A person notices only as much as they can compare. Without comparison, one may think the order one lives in is the only form of reality.
This thought leads us somewhere important: perhaps many things we treat as reality are only the scale of perception to which we have become accustomed. What appears fixed may not be infinite; it may only be changing too slowly for us to notice. Or perhaps our window is too narrow to read it.
Truth is sometimes not what never changes, but what is too deep to be noticed easily.
