It's perhaps one of those things we tend to treat as a commodity. As I heard a man speak today about how we associate certain terms automatically with time - spending, losing, precious, gain, waste, earn. Anything really, words we commonly attach to money. Interesting eh?
Time is no longer the same as it was hundreds of years ago. There is still sunset and sunrise today, but we don't pay attention to the natural beauty of it all anymore. With the invention of electricity accompanied with Edison's light bulb, who needed to sleep by the end of the day.
So what's the use of following natural daylight anyway?
Decades ago, they had 24 hours just as we do today. Why is it that we often just say that we haven't got enough time to complete the things we have to do. It's been particularly a big thing currently with the specific time-orientation with exams and all - be here at this time, complete this by that time, don't be late for it. It's been hard to really think of a time in the past couple years that I've stepped out of the rigor of time. Of course, with some exceptions especially on vacation - sunrise and sunset decided what happened that day.
The great return of getting up by sunrise? That's perhaps so for myself at least - well after exams. Planning to ditch the watch at some point, but it's not entirely bright to do it at the current moment, in 19 days.
The thing we've turned into a commodity shouldn't be treated like one. The time spent with a friend or family even by yourself should not be given a simple figure. It's simply not how we were designed. We developed the circadian system so we do sleep at night, so it just begs you to stop complaining that you don't have enough time to complete things.
24 hours is all we need - completion of all tasks for the day.
Time is no longer the same as it was hundreds of years ago. There is still sunset and sunrise today, but we don't pay attention to the natural beauty of it all anymore. With the invention of electricity accompanied with Edison's light bulb, who needed to sleep by the end of the day.
So what's the use of following natural daylight anyway?
Decades ago, they had 24 hours just as we do today. Why is it that we often just say that we haven't got enough time to complete the things we have to do. It's been particularly a big thing currently with the specific time-orientation with exams and all - be here at this time, complete this by that time, don't be late for it. It's been hard to really think of a time in the past couple years that I've stepped out of the rigor of time. Of course, with some exceptions especially on vacation - sunrise and sunset decided what happened that day.
The great return of getting up by sunrise? That's perhaps so for myself at least - well after exams. Planning to ditch the watch at some point, but it's not entirely bright to do it at the current moment, in 19 days.
The thing we've turned into a commodity shouldn't be treated like one. The time spent with a friend or family even by yourself should not be given a simple figure. It's simply not how we were designed. We developed the circadian system so we do sleep at night, so it just begs you to stop complaining that you don't have enough time to complete things.
24 hours is all we need - completion of all tasks for the day.
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