Like Salvador Dali’s paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever you’re on vacation in a foreign country.

Laurie Nadel
About This Quote

This quote from San Diego author and physician Dr. Janice Kaplan is a great way to describe a vacation. There’s a certain freedom that comes with being out of one’s home. The pace of life slows down, leaving room to simply enjoy the experience.

This quote is also about the elements that make up time: sand, watches, and time itself. Sand refers to the fact that time moves as it does, as we watch the sand fall through the hourglass. Watches melt as they do in Dali’s paintings because time moves so slowly when we are on vacation.

And, finally, time itself is mentioned here because we cannot really say where time goes while we are away from our normal surroundings and focus on something else: a new city, a new place to eat, or a new activity to do.

Source: Dancing With The Wind: A True Story Of Zen In The Art Of Windsurfing

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