time is relatively precious
17:00 25/01/2005
Dear Reader
recently, time has become much more precious to me. Like any other commodity, supply and demand are the determining factors in the value of time. Since I have started work and more importantly having to commute to work, my supply of time has greatly decreased while the demand remains the same.
As a result many of the things that I would like to do have fallen by the wayside. Some things I do my best to make time for, my friends in particular I try and see fairly regularly. For the most part however, by the end of the day, I have little energy for anything other than recuperating in preparation for the next day.
I feel like a king, recently dethroned. In the decadence of my royal days, I flittered time away. Like sand running through my hands, it slipped beyond my grasp and out of my control. I gained little benefit from the heaps of time that I had stored and available to me, each day bringing in more by the wagon load. When you have lots of something, it doesn’t seem valuable, you always have more. You can waste it and still have more than you’ll ever need. This waste lends itself to idleness, and while I was never fully idle and did many things that I wanted to do, I was far from being efficient in my use of the minutes and hours.
But now that I have so little of it for myself, like the eyes of Midas, they have been opened to what is truly valuable in the world. For the first few weeks after I started work, I was able to squeeze in a lot into a short period of time. Indeed, when I originally thought of writing this piece, it was to have a more bright outlook. But alas, after that first two months, the chains of the long work day began to close around me. I do not waste my time, or at least I hope I do not. It has been a while since I have read so much, and I have been much more social of late but still I am too weary in mind and body to attempt any projects. I believe I know the answer, it is fairly simple but always difficult, it is self discipline and a little more sleep.
“Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
I have the early to rise part, just need to enforce the early to bed part.
Regards,
The Writer