A Glitch In Time

By Cyndi Seidler
05/22/06

Do you ever wonder what life would be like without time? I personally think living day to day would be a lot less complicated if we didn't have to deal with time.

The way I see it, we're always having to keep time, even if we don't have time. How are we supposed to keep something we don't have anyway?

And, then there's the fact that we, no matter what we do, end up losing time. Where did it go exactly? Did anyone see it go by? Was it hiding somewhere?

The thing is, if you lose time, you can't seem to get it back. It's just gone. We try our best to find time, in an effort to gain the time we've lost, and that seems to compensate for the shortcoming of losing it in the first place. It sort of equals itself out in some cases.

If we lose too much time too often, we sometimes have to borrow time. Living on borrowed time is not fun. As a matter of fact, it's quite stressful. Who needs that?

Then I hear people say they don't have time, but it's only a trick to make you think they are better than the rest of us. They think, if they let us believe they don't have time, we can't expect them to do something by a certain time with time they don't have. This "no time" factor is certainly misleading because we all know we live in a world governed by time.

Another misleading concept of time is when people tell you they will find time. Which is odd because they haven't lost it yet. However, they tell you they are going to find it. But, we trust them to do something anyway because they say they will find time for it. We just assume that they plan to take something on and then go around and look for time to assign to doing it. Fair enough.

It's the same kind of illusion for those people who tell you they will make time. Like, they have magical powers and will just create time out of thin air. I think we've all been there. You want to get something done but you believe you don't have time, so you know you'll need to create it. You play the role of a magician to create a little time and suddenly there it is. Like it appeared out of nowhere.

The other illusion of time is that it flies. You'll hear "time just flew by" and we'll believe it. This is really just an excuse for not controlling time in the first place and allowing it to go too fast. It often gets us out of trouble when we've actually lost time.

Time isn't always on our side; I think you'll agree with me on that. I know some of us get angry enough to go out and kill time. What's safe about killing time though is that there isn't any law against it. We can kill time and never have to go to jail for it. I myself have killed time for no reason, too. That doesn't make me an evil person, nor does it make me a lawbreaker.

I think that's why we all like to kill time every now and then; it helps us feel we're getting even for those occasions when time slipped by, or when time just passed by without stopping, or when time was pressing.

That's not to say we're not a little guilty in regards to time. We do waste it. We start out with a certain amount of time, then we just throw it away or use it poorly. This falls under management: time management.

Managing time is the number one factor for controlling our day, which is measured by time. Organized people are good at this. They seem to have more time than others (who are not organized) and tend to get more done in less time.

So, they start out with the same amount of time as the rest of us, they use it wisely, manage it properly, and end up with more of it. They actually even have more time to kill.

Sweet.

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