Time Management
When you have time, you waste it. When you don’t… well you still waste it. A lot of us have lots of time, some like me, don’t have any time. I still waste time, some of the ways I waste time is thinking about stuff that is not very important. Like time. What is time, and why is it so important?
In ancient Egypt they had 2 hour days, from sun up to noon was one hour and from noon to sundown was the second hour. This apparently was not useful enough so humans divided the day into 4 hours, then 6 then 12 hours. Well what about night? I believe the romans had the first division of of night into 4 watches. With time technology advancing (very slowly, but still advancing) they found ways to make measurements more standard than the sun, so an hour in the summer was equal to an hour in the winter. Eventually we (humanity) decided on 24 hours for one day, then 60 minutes in one hour… still not good enough though so we divided minutes into 60 seconds. As if we haven’t gone far enough we said “what the hell, why not divide a second into thousandths?” So we did. So time is not some that has any meaning any more, it is just something humans made up to standardize time measurements.
What we decided to divide time into still doesn’t explain what time is. What time is, is your life wasting away. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades… they all are just little ticks like in a ruler, tracking how much time has passed since something and how long until something starts/ends. I know it seems like I am a little depressed, but this is my week: I start with 168 hours like every one else, job one takes about 55 of those hours, job two takes about 20 hours, job three takes pretty much all my free time at about 30 hours, driving and grocery shopping take another 20 hours a week and then I sleep about 32 hours of my week. So I have 11 hours of free time for myself, but instead, about 8 hours of it is spent cleaning my home and helping my wife. 3 hours of personal free time. Not much and I try to spend it making my cheesy little web pages and posting to this blog and trying to write and draw comics.
So now let me try to explain why time is important. From an outside perspective, people need time for themselves to have what little bit of freedom they have left after all their responsibilities. Don’t lie to yourself and try to be unselfish, you need this time to yourself just like you need time with other people. You need to have a decent block of time where no one asks you to do anything and you don’t have to do anything or else you will eventually blow up however it is that your personality type blows up.
I don’t have a degree in psychology and have no studies to site. So disagree all you want on the grounds that I am not a professional in this area, I won’t mind… I won’t even care.