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Today's time crisis is not acceleration. The days of acceleration are long gone. What we currently think of as acceleration is just one of the symptoms of time being lost. Today's time crisis stems from a time disorder that leads to various time disorders and misperceptions. Time lacks an orderly rhythm and falls into a state of disorder. The chaos makes time seem to fly. This time disorder is not the result of forced acceleration. The primary reason is the atomization of time, which is why people feel that time passes much faster than before. The dispersion of time makes it impossible for people to experience what persistence is. Nothing can stop time. Life is no longer embedded in a body of order or coordinate system that creates persistence. This book looks back to history to draw attention to the need for a different way of understanding everyday life in order to avoid falling into a temporal crisis. What the author remembers is not "the time of telling." The end of telling, or the end of a story, does not necessarily mean a gap in time. It has the potential to open up a life time that is free from theology and teleology and exudes its own unique fragrance. Its premise is to revive the "contemplative life."