Yes, this is yet another post about technology and its affects on my life. I apologize if these are starting to annoy you, but it is my current project. I promise I will post about something else soon. Anyways, onto my blog:
I have learned something important about time recently. If you do not worry about it, if you detach yourself from it, it lasts longer. Technology makes escaping time nearly impossible. Every technological face we look at has the time on it somewhere. We have become completely and entirely obsessed with time.
By no means do I intend to say that we should rid the world of clocks and just start staring at the sun for guidance. The ability to tell time is one of the things that makes humans great. It makes us efficient and helps us to better understand the world around us. However, I do believe that time has begun to control more in our lives than it should.
When I spend two hours curled up reading a book, it feels longer then if I had just watched four hour long episodes of some tv show, but it is the good kind of longer. The good times are drawn out when I am no longer constantly eyeing the ever moving hands. I can let myself stop speeding around for a moment and simply live. It is impossible to live in the now if you are always watching the clock for its next change.
If I have something to do at 4, but I want to read, I will set a timer on my phone for whatever time I need to stop, and read. I do not need to be constantly checking the minutes and calculating how many more pages I can read. I let time pass as it will and for that it rewards me.
I realize this blog may sound a little silly. Two hours are always two hours, they can't possibly become four, but when you are not just watching them pass, they go by at a more acceptable speed. I always hated the feeling of looking up from my computer to see that the sun has suddenly set. When I'm reading, I watch it set until I have to turn on the lights because it is dark outside. I feel like I am still part of the world and time passes more at my pace.
I believe that if we could all stop looking at our watches every five seconds and let time pass as it wants to, we will find life more enjoyable. We will worry less about the days we wasted because they will have felt more like full days. For me, there is nothing like experiencing the sun go down. I hate when it is just suddenly gone. I want to watch my day pass and fill every second of it with whatever needs to be done and whatever I want to do. That's how you make more of the time you have.
