Saturday, October 1, 2011

Irrationality

An hour. One can do so much with an hour, or so little. You can get 65 miles away from where you are right now in an hour. You can make someones day in an hour, some times by traveling 65 miles. You can drink 4 or 5 beers in an hour...I can drink 4-5 beers in an hour. I can drink alone, and accomplish nothing. I can drink with others, perhaps having a meaning full conversation in an hour. I could drink with others and never talk about anything even though we are saying words to each other the whole time. An hour, your hour, is what ever you choose it to be obviously. Obligations, habit, biological needs, other constrictions can help decide what you do with most of your hours, but its up to you to make the last call.

Time is so much more valuable than money, its almost incomparable. You can have as much money as you want, if you work for it, or some times not. Money is infinite, and time is most certainly not. You can never know how much time you actually have. Its like having a bank account that just always seams to have money in it. You don't know if someday it will run out. I could die tomorrow. But we all could, and that's the risk we take every day. So because it's inevitable, we should not live in fear, as it does no good what so ever. Time is indefinite.

So, time can be divided into units. Lets turn back to the hour. A class period, a 65 mile sojourn, a increment of a paycheck, 4-5 beers, a meal at a restaurant, an episode of tv/radio; enough time to strike oil, get married, die, do the dishes, read a chapter (I'm a slow reader), conceive a child, save a life, end a life, end your life, enough time to figure out how to use a ; correctly... the possibilities are vast.

Time isn't money, its something completely different.

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