Warp Speed: When Life Stops Playing by the Rules of Time

 By Kristi Cruise

This picture was taken six years ago.
And in true cliché fashion—it feels like just yesterday.

Kristi Cruise and daughter, 3 smiling into camera

But not because time is passing normally.
Because lately, time feels like it's collapsing.

Every week feels like a month.
Every month feels like a chapter I used to live over the course of years.
My life has been moving at warp speed—and I don’t say that casually.

It’s as if the universe is compressing a decade of growth into a single, breathless season.
And the truth is... I think I’m in it.
A full-body upgrade.
An awakening.
A timeline collapse.
All of it.

Some days I feel like I’m grieving and birthing at the same time.
Like I’m being dismantled and rebuilt in the same breath.
Old stories falling away like ash,
New identities not yet fully formed—just flickers and fog.

But still, I create.
Still, I show up.
Still, I write and teach and love and mother and try.

Because this isn’t just ordinary living anymore.
This is a full-spectrum existence.

I’m not sleepwalking through life.
I’m living awake—awake to my patterns, my wounds, my purpose.
And that kind of presence?
It bends time.

I used to think this pace meant I was doing something wrong.
Too much, too fast.
But now I know:

This is what I think it feels like to live in alignment with the soul of who you are.

It’s not burnout.
It’s breakthrough velocity.
It’s not chaos.
It’s clarity in disguise.

When you’re this close to the truth—
When you’re birthing books, healing wounds, facing fears, holding your children and your vision at the same time—
Of course time warps.
Of course things speed up.

You’re not just here to survive the days.
You’re here to collapse timelines and rewrite them. This is alchemy.

So if you’re feeling it too—
Like everything is cracking and shifting beneath your feet—
Know this:

You are not broken.
You are breaking through.

This isn’t the end.
It’s the upgrade.

And no, you’re not behind.
You’re just arriving.

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