“Time wasted differs from material wasted in that there can be no salvage.”
It has been said, apart from material possessions, that time may be seen as another barrier to our understanding; the reason being that we rush through life, fearful that we would miss something if we take an opportunity to slow down a little.
It is actually so true that once you reduce your speed and become silent within yourself, you then realize the ambivalence of time, how unimportant but at the same time important it seems to be. In a letter to his daughter in 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that once you are caught up in the material world, not one person in ten thousand will find the time to form literary tastes, to examine the validity of philosophical concepts for themselves, or even to form what he called the wise and tragic sense of life.
Karl Marx viewed time as everything and man as nothing, comparing man to that of time’s carcass. Time is truly the substance from which all of us are made, and wasted time is wasted life. Time ought therefore always to be cherished, never ever to be wasted. I always remind people that tombstones reflect you birthdate and date of death – not lists of possessions. Do not, when it is too late, regret the time you wasted. Spend time with your loved ones, and remember, time spent on worthy tasks has value. Slow down and meditate on how you spend your time, for life is much too short to be wasted on trivial activities.
I ask of you, what is time?
Is it something to be wasted willy-nilly?
If you think that this is so, you're being silly!
Use your time wisely, that is sublime!
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