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The Sun is Up
If you have ever visited or lived in a part of the earth that isn’t within a certain geographical distance of the equator, days and nights might not be the way to separate the segments of your life. Since the invention of clocks, knowing what time it is has received so much more importance that most humans have phones that keep them updated or wrists that are sheathed in timepieces. The keeping of time is a misnomer. You can’t really slow it down, speed it up or stop it. It is always there ticking away in mockery. But we let it guide us, our tasks, our celebrations and our routines. Time talks to us. It helps us. Consider how often you check to see what time it is throughout your average day or night. What would you do if you couldn’t use a clock to keep your life moving ahead? In actuality, the change in sunlight or darkness might be as helpful. But we want our clocks to talk to us. We feel more in control when we have some knowledge about how long we have been awake or asleep. Recognizing our dependence isn’t a bad thing until we are checking it so often that we want time to fly or stop. That’s more due to how we are managing our minutes or some unexpected activity. Try and see if you can go two hours without checking to see what time it is. Let the clock tell you when to listen.
Tick Tock
Option #1: When did you last check the time?
Option #2: Can you feel overwhelmed by time even without knowing it?
Option #3: What time is most important to you?
That’s it. After you choose the option that best describes how you view time, take a few minutes to describe why you chose that option and what action, if any, may come next.
