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I put in the time-started writing. Now it's quarter-past 2. One more minute gone in the day. I used to wonder, if we weren't always so obsessed with trying to save time, would we seem to have more of it? Or at least a better time? Typically I have the "best time" when I am completely unaware of what time it is or how much time has passed. If you're too busy looking at the clock, how do you enjoy yourself? Certainly we have reasons for keeping track of the time, and some of them are quite good. So that you're not late for work, so that you don't offend people by showing up 2 hrs. late while they waited (although if we had no way to measure time how could they be offended? you simply arrived when you arrived) so that when you're cooking (esp. for other people) and you have to check on something in a certain amount of time- you don't end up with bricks for bread, etc... although you would think you'd smell something burning by then. : ) I sometimes wonder if someone kept an account of all the time I waste everyday, every week, every month, until the end of my life, how high would that number be? (and I don't mean to imply that people don't need time just to relax, or time to think. I wouldn't consider that wasted time necessarily. I mean time that we spend doing nothing, accomplishing nothing, time that we truly waste when we still had the energy and strength to be doing something better or more productive, something that didn't just please ourselves. ) How much time would you have wasted? It's now nearly half-past 2. I will have taken 15 min. today just to write this. I kind of want to approach time the way money is approached (although slightly different). Don't care too much about it, give away as much as you can to others or the like. Realize it's there to be used on others, but that we won't always have it. So, in some senses, regard it as a paradox- Be concerned how you spend it- because you only have so much of it- But don't care too much. In other words don't grasp it. Don't use it all on yourself. Use it for others. But don't forget to enjoy it too. You might as well, otherwise life will be pretty dry.