‘I never have enough time’ is a common phrase we hear in our everyday lives but what, exactly, is time? It is, essentially, a construction that we, as humans, have devised to make sense of the world around us. It is an ephemeral measure of a day and how we structure what we do through it.
The only two constants in our lives are the day we are born and the day we die. How we fill the days in-between is pretty much up to us. I think we should try to fill our days with actions that contribute in a positive way to the world around us and make time for the events and people that are really important to us each and every day.
Such an aspiration is easier said than done though as despite how well we plan our time and organise our days we never seem to have enough of it- there are always other things we need to do!
Our concepts of time are largely arbitrary, except for the year or the lunar month which is the 28 days that the shape of the moon is traced from full moon to full moon. And so, our measure of time is dictated by a star a million miles away. It is a way we are able to put a measure on our age- how we grow old- otherwise we would just be beings who gradually look older (some more quickly than others)
Would our lives be uncomplicated if we simplified our measure of time? If we removed months and days and just lived our lives from the minute we are born to the second we die? Perhaps we would have found a different measure – maybe we would have just lived our days as a time of ‘light’ and time of ‘dark’.
Perhaps we would be more productive- not being stuck to a working day or maybe we would be less- having the opportunity to come up with every excuse under the sun not to do something!
I suppose though, as long as you enjoy every second of the time that you have it doesn’t matter too much how it is measured!
