Sex, money, life, love & death
Most of us carry time on our wrist, so it's quite easy to underestimate the power and the nature of time. Yet time is the stuff life is made of. Time is the ONLY thing we truly own.
It occurred to me a few minutes ago that time is in fact an entirely DIFFERENT entity, depending on HOW we use it.
Time is love if you spend it doing something for someone else, like preparing a meal, or volunteering, or shopping for and later wrapping a birthday gift.
Time is life when you travel and spontaneously visit places outside the conventional path of touristic attractions. In other words, you actually meet the people who live there to learn more about them, how they live, how they celebrate life, etc.
Time is money, of course, when you work.
Time is sex when... well, you know. This kind of time also includes activities you do which guarantee a certain wanted and desirable erotic payoff. (Look, you'll have to read between the lines because I can't describe in any further detail! I'm just too afraid my Mom might somehow come across this posting!).
Finally, time is death -- and here, I have to pause and acknowledge that a great many people will deny this fact, but if you think about it, it's true -- time is death when we watch mediocre TV on a regular basis without seeking a better alternative use of our precious time.
Sometimes, time can be a mixture of the above, such as when we pursue a profession we love: time then is both money and love.
It occurred to me a few minutes ago that time is in fact an entirely DIFFERENT entity, depending on HOW we use it.
Time is love if you spend it doing something for someone else, like preparing a meal, or volunteering, or shopping for and later wrapping a birthday gift.
Time is life when you travel and spontaneously visit places outside the conventional path of touristic attractions. In other words, you actually meet the people who live there to learn more about them, how they live, how they celebrate life, etc.
Time is money, of course, when you work.
Time is sex when... well, you know. This kind of time also includes activities you do which guarantee a certain wanted and desirable erotic payoff. (Look, you'll have to read between the lines because I can't describe in any further detail! I'm just too afraid my Mom might somehow come across this posting!).
Finally, time is death -- and here, I have to pause and acknowledge that a great many people will deny this fact, but if you think about it, it's true -- time is death when we watch mediocre TV on a regular basis without seeking a better alternative use of our precious time.
Sometimes, time can be a mixture of the above, such as when we pursue a profession we love: time then is both money and love.
posted by Super Peter at 7:52 PM
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