How We Squander Time.
When it comes to Time, we squander it rather ruthlessly.
And it comes from a false sense of comfort that it is abundant. That we have tons of it after work, after school, after our working life.
That’s really not true.
Time, like health, works on a deduction basis.
We start with 100% availability, and it gets increasing less as we run towards the our biological expiry date.
We tend to push things till we are available. I don’t mean hedonistic items. I mean, meaningful matters such as personal development, embarking on that career once we get promoted, starting a business when we have saved enough.
That never happens because it is difficult to get out of our comfort when we keep thinking that we have Time on our side.
It isn’t true.
Time isn’t on our side. It is against us.
Time works in a funny manner.
When we are jobless or pending employment, it feels like we have tons of time. So we squander it into vacations and entertainment.
When we start using Time in pursuit of our goals, the journey itself would expend a lot of time. Thus, in the continuum of time where we are lost the day before and we miraculously found our North Star today — Time takes a different course.
And just so suddenly, we will experience this perceived shortage of time. It is perceived, because it is based on our personal experience.
That explains why the family member that is working hard to become the top student in his cohort is always running against time while the aimless one always has spare time to kill.
If only we can pass on available time to those who desperately need more.
Unfortunately, we can’t. Otherwise, time would be the most valuable asset in terms of price in the open trading markets.
If only we can really do that, I would really, really want to purchase the equivalent of lost time measured in terms of my adolescent years.
Perhaps, finally with the additional amount of time in my hands measured against others who are time-starved, I could have that edge on my side to become the top-student.
Truth be told, that is far more idealistically productive compared to cursing at my past where I didn’t perform up to my expectations.
I need more time.
Would you kindly pass me some?
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