Thinking about time

Every holiday, I find myself thinking about time in some form or another.

This holiday, it’s no different.

I’m amazed at how much I can fit in a day while on holiday, while still having time to rest and relax.

And conversely, how many days back home seem to be pass without me doing much.

While thinking about this, I came across a book called On the Shortness of Life by Seneca, who was a Stoic philosopher over 2,000 years ago in the early Roman Empire days.

On the first page, I came across this paragraph:

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Life is long enough, and sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.

But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realise that it has passed before we knew it was passing.”

I was taken aback that roughly 2,000 years ago, people were grappling with the same problem we face today — about how we use the time we have.

I should not be able to relate to something written so long ago, but I did.

We’ve advanced technologically, but in many ways, we are still the same as we were millennia ago.

Today’s Prompt

Is the way you spend your time aligned with what truly matters to you?

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