We’ve all heard the expression “tempus fugit” or “time flies,” which is especially true on vacation or if you are 1 day ahead in Australia. (Here’s one you haven’t heard “fruit flies — in a food fight” since we just made it up. See above. LOL 😂)
But time doesn’t always fly, sometimes it craaaawls as in the following familiar examples.
- At work
- When paint dries, water boils, golf is on TV, Adele is on the radio, the in-laws visit, or someone brings up Harry and Meghan Markle
- When listening to overly opinionated in-laws
- During a boring lecture (see in-laws above)
- In the Matrix
- When Congress meets to pass a bill, or, if you’re really, really lucky, during another type of congress
A particularly relevant example for us of tempus non-fugit is the enrollment of clinical trials. We refer particularly to the Phase 3, REPLATINUM, with RRx-001 (nibrozetone) plus a platinum doublet in 3rd line or beyond small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and the Phase 2b, KEVLARx, with RRx-001 plus cisplatin and intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in 1st line head and neck cancer as an anti-severe oral mucositis agent. Even though these trials are on-target with enrollment, sometimes it feels like the opposite is true and glaciers melt faster — just because we are impatient to learn the outcome.
That’s time in a nutshell; it is contrary — when you want it to slow down, it speeds up and vice versa. In general, the more focused you are on time, the slower it moves. Kind of like in-laws — when you desperately want them to leave, they invariably decide to stay for an extra day or even longer, and when you want them to stay — wait, that never happens.