Monday, November 30, 2009

What's The Point of Time

What is time? Why do we always have to feel the pressure of time? Why do we use time to measure everything that we do?

I understand that time is the most realistic way of measuring your life and your "time" on earth, but why are we consumed with time? Aren't the activities in our daily lives more important than time? For example, is work really so trivial that you must say, "I am exhausted after this long 8 hour work day". I mean, 8 hours is a long "time" but is that really why we are tired? Did you accomplish what your boss wanted, what you wanted, or anything for that matter in the 8 hours you spent working?

So there it is, maybe we should measure what we do everyday by the accomplishments, the satisfactions, the victories, the losses, the gains we make, the advancements we make, the differences we make and so forth, as opposed to just the time we spent.

There is no point in using time to do things that you couldn't measure otherwise. What does that mean? It means, that if you go to work and at the end of the day all you could really say is, "I spent 8 hours at work today", then there is no point. Do something fulfilling, something that you feel proud of, something you can brag about at dinner with your family. Instead of bragging about the money you made from working so hard, brag about the positive changes you made from dedicating your "time" to something you found worthy.

Remember, your time is precious and unfortunately it is limited, don't let time pressure you. Use your time wisely, do things you love, then you will never measure what you have done by the time you spent, but by the enjoyment you had doing it.

2 comments:

  1. "Never take life so seriously that you can't appreciate the time at hand.."

    Nice post man!!

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