Hallowell on “killing time.”
From CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap!, by Edward Hallowell:
But time, a far more precious asset than money, rolls on unnoticed. We spend it. We waste it. We even kill it. Killing time. It’s worse than burning money. Sages through the ages have cautioned us to seize the day, to make the most of the moment, to live each day as if it were our last, but rare is the person who truly does that. Time is a finite resource, but we behave as if it were infinite because, at the deepest level, we deny the fact of death in our everyday lives.
What Hallowell says reminds me of Benjamin Franklin in The Way to Wealth:
But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.
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Time is our most important and valuable possession. You can trade money for time, but you can’t buy more than the 24 hours everyone gets in a day. You choose how to spend your time, but you can’t actually “save” time, only spend it on something else. Whether you spend it learning, working, sleeping, standing in line, sitting in traffic, arguing, relaxing, with family or friends or alone, each day’s allotment is spent. It’s your choice.
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