I always perceived that the modern way of confession is writing your resume. A resume poses a lot of questions and conclusions of how well you used time. This article is not just about Time, it is about everything that consumes time.
How we all wish we live near the borders of the International Date line. We can technically lose or gain a day, each time we cross it. If Sunday is not enough for you, a few minutes of traveling is all you need to extend your Sunday again. Cross the dateline, and Sunday is the day you will arrive eventhough it is also the day you left.
But this idea of escapism is not less likely to work. Although one desires to cross the imaginary line–the fact remains that the earth is circling around the sun, the calendar is flipping pages, the hands of time is moving, and we blow our birthday cakes.
Waris Dirie, an African-born former model (now living in New York) once said, “Here it seems like it is chaos forever and I’m trying to sit down for a moment and there’s no time for that. In Somalia we don’t have a time so we don’t care what time it is. But in the West, everything is money-money, power, sucking, sucking away. Time is never enough”. She’s pertaining to a world where the clock ticks and there’s no real sound of silence.
An exceptional employee is defined as someone who can do great job for less time. The kind of mutants desired by a multitude of companies. If your product is perfect but it doesn’t meet the deadline, it’s worthless. Forget the concept that less time means less quality– Rachel Ray can cook a full gourmet in 30 minutes. Forget the fable about the turtle and the rabbit, it appears that the fast-running, bragging, rabbit will win the race of the real world.
The real world means being happy even if your alarm cuts-short your sleep. Happiness is having peace of mind. Ironically, having peace of mind means being comfortable; Being comfortable means having money; Having money means having a well-paid job; A well-paid job means more responsibilities; And more responsibilities means no time to rearrange your life if you say “later”. So what we all do, we try not to fail. We are so busy, we have machines to wash our dishes. Each cent in the price of these machines means a “second” spent in work. But in doing so, we can do other things. Therefore: we all buy the time we spend even for just relaxing.
We are all virtually in a world paying for time. A surgical face-lift means buying time before people tells you “you look like shit”. A call center agent will want to bother you even if you curse them. When people spend time watching TV, someone out there is feeding their wallets. Meeting someone means paying the appearance with a cup of (not free) coffee. Doing something as simple as losing common sense means more time to worry and more money to spend in solving the problem. Even depressed citizens find themselves paying for people to care.
With this, the 21st century introduced “Time Management”. It was once known as a form of self-discipline, and now a course offered in Universities and workshops. Then comes other schools of thought such as Spare-time Management, Lifestyle Management… and who knows what’s next: Maximizing Your Time, Seconds After Birth?
Writing this blog cost money (electricity), energy (mind), and my valuable time (like doing something else). I’m sorry to say that I don’t have much time to put more words and i hope you understood my opinion.
If you read this, Well then, you just became my customer.
I should say to you: “THANK YOU. COME AGAIN” 
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