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The Basic Principle of Time
“I haven’t got time for that” It’s something we have all said it. It’s even a meme and remixed youtube video — search for it, you won’t regret it. (Or just use this helpful link — https://youtu.be/waEC–8GFTP4).
Now you have watched the video — sit back and contemplate the following. You who claim, like me, to not have time for so many things, found the time to watch a youtube video which is an auto-tuned remix of an interview with the survivor of a fire. I said you won’t regret watching it. Maybe now, you regret it a little.
This is a silly illustration of my main point. You DO have time. We all have time. 24 hours to be precise. Every single one of us on the planet has exactly the same amount of time each day, from the newborn baby to the highflying CEO of a billion dollar company. Every single one of us gets the same. The issue is how we choose to use that time. Don’t get me wrong, for a lot of us many of those choices are made for us or choices we have made in the past impact the options available to us today. For example, we all have natural human limitations, we all need to eat and sleep etc and so this will take up some of that time. The way society is organised around us will further limit our options, so if we have a job and if we want to keep it, then during set hours of the day, what we can do with our time will be restricted, to greater and lesser degrees by…
