By William Brown
I was raised to believe if you’re not early, you’re late. Being prompt was the only way to be and being late was considered a cardinal sin.
Growing up like this kept me mindful of how I viewed other people’s time. I will concede, though, if we’re super-mindful of other people’s time, we might not be actively considering how we choose to use our own time.
Love is spelled T-I-M-E. Children know this; sometimes, adults forget.
What’s the difference between wasting and cherishing time? Time, itself, is nonjudgmental and even generous. It will give you pretty much what you give it.
You’ve probably heard that the one resource you can never make more of is time. But is that really true? While it may seem to be a reality that we can’t increase the quantity of time we have left in this life, we can indeed increase the quality of it. We can choose how we spend our time.
The real choice is how we experience time. How we perceive it. Is your time yours? Or somebody else’s? Do you need to take back control of your time? Have you given too much of it away and now there’s not enough left for you?
When we value our time, it seems, well, more valuable. If we pay attention to what we pay attention to we can get more out of the time we’re spending.
Think about the words we use to describe time. We take time out of our day to catch up on the important things. When we want to speak with someone, we ask them if they have a minute.
Love is spelled T-I-M-E. Children know this; sometimes, adults forget.
There’s a lot of fear surrounding the concept of time. Fear that we’re running out of it. Fear that we’re wasting it. Fear that there’s not enough to go around. Scientist Charles Darwin said, “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
I’ll bet that feels truer now in today’s fast-paced world than in Darwin’s when he wrote it, but it sure sounds like a harsh take. To waste time means you don’t value time? I’m not buying it.
What if, just for a treat, you wasted a little time on purpose? After all, ideally, it is your time to waste. As mathematician Bertrand Russell said, “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
William W. Brown is founder and board chair of Legacy Early College wbrown@legacyearlycollege.org.
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