How many people believe that time saving devices increase the value of time? It certainly appears that time must be valued if the focus is saving it. Instead, maybe it is dying and we need to resuscitate it, so these devices are defibrillators for time's arythmia.
Does conserving time demonstrate how important it must be. I posit the theory that this all devalues one of humanities most acutely finite resources. There was a time when the meal at the table webt from game or seed to dinner at the hand of the people at the table. They took time to savor the work of their hands. Most activites were devoted to essentials of life - food, clothing and shelter. Everything you had was made by you or obtained by bartering something that you made. That's why a whittled carving meant so much - you couldn't by those at the not-yet-invented $1 store and someone used their rest time to do more work for you. We had a purpose for our activity much closer to our instinctive selves. Now when we relax, we often blindly give this away to watching others pretend to be someone else. Yes, that statement includes the loosely titled reality shows. We are 100% behind saving time, but we can't find the bank. I think we've been swindled. I recommend putting away the time savng devices and doing something that takes time and creates something you can hold in your hands. This will be time you cherish like a child rather than save like a dying house plant.
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Well said and very true. As things in my life have gone up and down, especially in recent days, I have noticed that what I treasure most is time to: read, write, knit and think. Not necessarily in that order, but well facilitated by the desire to feel an internal peace... anyhow, it's an interesting journey and the dividends are just beginning to appear. Thank you.
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