There are times that I wonder what all the rush is about. We are a society obsessed with time. Our lives revolve around timely schedules. Either we meet with great difficulty of miss with feelings of frustration and guilt. A traffic jam, after all, is really just a bunch of people hurrying to get somewhere at the same time, well some faster than others - regardless each has to be somewhere by that certain time. They're cutting down the beautiful trees along the country like lanes in order to widen the roadways so that we can get from A to B almost five minutes sooner. From microwave ovens, calibrated and sophisticated gizmos incorporated within nearly every commodity. And then the “no iron” clothes so that we save time more time.
Why? To enjoy relax? To enjoy those captured moments? Not necessarily.
Perhaps it’s to work harder go faster and save more time. There was a time that most of the world lived in an agrarian society guided by the changes of the season not by way of a schedule. They did what had to be done in accordance to the weather not by the numerical value of a clock. When tasks were finished, you stopped because it was done to ones own satisfaction. And they were done with value and when they were finished there was that satisfaction. Today time has been organized and defies understanding. The pulse of a compute is within a nano second of a second. This of course speeds everything up in so many facets of our world as we know it today. There are businesses now offering time management seminars so that you can learn to shave off not extra hours but extra minutes. By the way, many of the same businesses are offering stress management courses to go along with this. I guess one thing lead into another. Or maybe time is on my computer, car, microwave, cellular – as time literally is on my side just maybe it's literally at my side. Move over...Time. But then again how does one move time?
I have always enjoyed impromptu conversations that would spring up with total strangers regardless of where I was. Now the laptop computer has replaced many of our social manners and that all too special human factor. The idea that everything should be accomplished as fast as possible and value is about how much is produced indicates a society that hardly anyone ever comes to question. Just think about it. The important things in life are timeless. 
That is when we have the TIME to think about it.
maybe I have too much time and do too much thinking
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I do enjoy impromptu typed of conversations also wherein one gets to think and gives his side without too much brainwashing. Its in that precise moment i get to see the person. Edit and delete comes next of course laughs here*, as i am doing, but the truth lies on it.
ReplyDeleteAnd yep time plays an important role. hugs tight :)
Oh the good topic Jack. Time, schedules and time zones, all we have to manage in order to find a suitable moment for a break in routine so we can enjoy the essentials of life. Funny that the essentials are the things which we have to relinguish to a place within the short `free time` frame that we have in a day. How silly when we stop to think about it. That never ending race must have started when one has said the famous `time is money`.
ReplyDeleteI might right now as well Tee! But I don't have to be on time for anything right now. :)
ReplyDeleteRight now, I literally don't pay that much attention to the time. But I do believe that we have become a society that has lost some of it's value due to gizmos and time. We don't just go with the flow look at how much things have changed since say 10 years ago.
ReplyDeleteIronically time is a commodity money and so much more. Yet look how we are forgetting the important things Danielle. How much has evolved in accordance to time not within the essentials of time. Free time has become less and less as now we are thinking and producing faster but I question the human condition and the value of life.
ReplyDeleteOf course we can't turn back time. But so often we have become a state of time, not within as state of life.
"There are businesses now offering time management seminars so that you can learn to shave off not extra hours but extra minutes. By the way, many of the same businesses are offering stress management courses to go along with this. I guess one thing lead into another."
ReplyDeleteThat amused me... it reminded me of a story of tire repair shop that left nails on the road to increase their business. So stress people out with unrealistic expectations of time and then offer them time and stress management classes.
That is certainly true Jack and I surely would love to be in a society or a situation that would allow for more quality time. I am writing this and I think of families which have even more to do in a day. Can we stop progress and what it involves, I am not too sure we could.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more :)
ReplyDeleteSmiling yeah! It's ironic and there is a comparable.
ReplyDeleteI really don't know the answer with that one Danielle maybe we set our own time within it all. There can be progress but just like the news and too much news - are we progressing to rapidly and losing the quality within life itself?
ReplyDeleteCheryl, I think it's more about cadence, I don't think this is an item that is due to being or getting older but there is something to be said
ReplyDeletewith regards to time and how we live so fast and it's not as much a quality it's more of a time demand. Altering what we value, perhaps yeah.
Ah yes time loss frustrated me today! I read an article recently when I was waiting to have my blood drawn for my annual physical. It was in the new england journal and was promoting vacations to lighthouses off the coast. They said that they ask people to leave their cell phones and just enjoy the water off the coast for an hour. Their are positive an negative connotations to all different time periods. I do find myself needing solitude in nature in order to find inner peace. Great blog
ReplyDeleteCinn there have been time earlier where I just go without a watch and all. I was reading part of today and this area of time and how we do much more bu are we really doing in the same manner. I find that it's something so often that we tend to forget about the valuable things and for myself I find that we are within an era where time management is not about hours, now it's down to minutes. I am not sure that we are really gaining as much from it all. I think we have to render our own time table perhaps.
ReplyDeleteI find stress levels increasing whereas often times one is expected to work 60 hours at a 40 hour per week job. I quit wearing my watch on races for running an do better that way! Just some other thoughts. I like to go on hikes an not worry about time
ReplyDeleteOh I remember they were promoting the blackburn challenge. Google it jack its an interesting history an challenge! Oh yeah I'm supposed to get 7 hours of sleep for better health lol xx
ReplyDeleteCome to think of it, just about everywhere I look there is a clock or a digital readout on a screen.
ReplyDeleteAh well, life in the fast lane, the rat race and time is money, means little to me, it is interesting to watch though.
Running or even walking is one of the best things with regards to stress something which is cardio. As you certainly know. Hicking yes! Can't wait for spring Cinn.
ReplyDeleteHi John yeah why not!
ReplyDeleteShall do Cinn...
ReplyDeletetoo cool : http://www.blackburnchallenge.com/Blackburn.html
good post,funny thing is...time waits for no one and most seem to be in a hurry to get where they need to be.i'm never in a rush to do anything cause i value the time i already have.
ReplyDeleteNow there is a grand thought Parrie.
ReplyDeletegood topic Jack, hugs)))
ReplyDeleteLife is like carousel just keeps going and going. Sometimes we all need to get off. I would love to spend some time without the need for a clock, just do what one wishes when need be.
ReplyDeleteThe value of life has kind of been lost somewhere for some ... they no longer see the things that they should be seeing.
ReplyDeleteTime is control really ... and at some point time became controlled .... well just about everything in the free world it controlled ~smile~
..... we should just be flowing with the seasons ~smile~
.a good blogg jack ,, they say "time waits for no man ...but we have to be Philosophical..:)
ReplyDeleteYeah I was out and then I did go and get some groceries and you could see all were within a rush to get one thing done in order to just have the time, but time can be a good thing I guess it's how we render or work time within our own way. Productive time is something that I feel is not timely it's just a moment.
ReplyDeleteSmiling as the one thing within time I do look forward to is the time of Spring!
ReplyDeleteCaroline yeah why not :)
ReplyDeleteTime is a result of choices made by the human race.
ReplyDeleteEven without a watch, one can feel stressed by the seasons. Spring is on its way and everything needs doing. :-)
And doing DJ is within the art of creation maybe :)
ReplyDeleteYes Spring! Are we there yet? Seriously, each day as its own beauty and well, if time goes by too fast, we grow older faster too lol! So let us live every moment for what it has in store for us. May this one be blessed, so all is well. It is the beginning of the weekend and for me, the beginning of 5 days off. Waooouh! Good night Jack.
ReplyDeleteThis is so true, Jack. I've been complaining how slow my computer is! Multiply is often very slow in loading pages, and I cannot believe how annoyed I become. What's the hurry, anyway? So many of us have forgotten how to truly relax, take our time, and enjoy the moment. I really find it so humorous when driving, and a car rushes past me going 90 miles an hour, only to meet up with them at the red light! I blame it on being a product of living and working in NY. Hence, the popular saying "faster than a NY minute." Everything is at warp-speed (faster than the speed of light) in NY! lol!
ReplyDeleteI recently read something that impressed me as a very good thought: now that we have an abundance of timesavers in our lives, we have less time. Why? Because we have to then fill the empty minutes and hours with something else. We are always rushing to do "sometihng else." We actually wind up busier and more weary than before. In earlier generations, tasks took time to complete. No rush. Maybe folks were better off then.
ReplyDeleteSo true Maryann as it was a satire of sorts yet with meaning on this very precious commodity of time. You know it's interesting when you come back to your own writes after you have taken time off with regards to writing.
ReplyDeleteSpring has yet to be sprung here! and I do look forward to it so. It's a time of growth and that up here in comparision as you know, when it's comes in we cherish it! And as well a great five days to you I bet the you have already enjoy the time off and something tells me you have gone hicking over there Danielle!
ReplyDeleteOh I could write on this Susan more but I took some time off of here to attend to other matters and I do believe that there is a balance within all of this. Yet last week I was on here much more than I thought I would be but I have not since last Friday. As far as the folks of yesteryear - I think there is some management within all of this, that is to say that each person has a different manner that they manage time. We always look for good progression of value. Now that does leave much to be said. A belated write back to you dear friend and I do hope that all things are working out with your up and coming celebration of marriage. :)
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