How do you waste the most time every day?

TIME WASTING FETISH

I don’t know whether it is a paradox or a juxtaposition. But I spend a lot of time worrying about wasting time, and a lot of time that is wasted. Sometimes I try to excuse time-wasting wasting or “doing nothing“, which can be seen this time wasting and other times, I feel as guilty as sin about wasting time.

Part of it is a concern that as a 77-year-old man, I can no longer work as hard, quickly, or as productively as when I was someone in my earlier years – anywhere up to the age of about 65.

Until I became a septuagenarian, I didn’t feel as if I was wasting time. Following my retirement from Education, I stayed actively engaged while working at our University and carrying out other tasks. It’s just been during these last few years that I have come over with worry about wasting time because I know I’m not doing what is used in terms of volume and output.

Part of this probably comes down to heritage. My Mother was a person who was always up in the morning by about 5:30 am and seemed to be busy around the place until very late in the evening. My Dad was a farmer who seemed to be on the go from the dimming of the penumbra in the morning until its reinstatement well beyond the sunset the same day. Maybe I became very conscious of time because of my parents.

My volume of output work was used to be pretty significant, but these days it is far less and reflecting upon that I feel that it’s to do with the fact that retirementAnd time wasting probably go hand in hand.

To try to counter this belief and the worry of wasting time I keep a diary in which I detail on each page for each section the time I spent in carrying out tasks every day along with the time I spend with writing another more sedentary activities. But there is a downside to that! I sometimes overlook filling in the details of what I have done or what I have written and in not doing that have it reinforced to me that I’m wasting time because there’s no evidence to the contrary.

Could I add that I don’t think as I used to once that sitting and thinking and talking about issues is the waste of timeThey did seem to be when I was younger. Which probably means of wasting time as one thing but taking time to think and to act upon those thoughts is not the waste that I thought it once was.

I started this piece with the juxtaposition and end with another; whether it makes sense or not is something to ponder.

“Time stands still for no man“, and“Stand still for a moment of time.”