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Control of Time |
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31/07/02 (47 review reads) |
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Advantages: Order over chaos
Disadvantages: Chaos posing as order
When I was young (a lot more younger than today..), time seemed longer and drawn out. The first 10yrs of my life felt very long; and I thought that my descent into teendom and early adulthood would seem as equally long. Life was going to be longer than people were saying at the time.
But as you many know, your teens whizz by; and though I'm not particularly old, it's odd to think in 7yrs time I'll be 30 (not hugely old too, but you get my drift). I certainly don't feel it.
On the surface level it does seem quite sad that most of us lead robotic lives. We all have schedules or routines, or designated times for work, rest and play; but also there are many of us who feel anxious and toppled if there is chaos in our lives, even if it's sometimes in the wanton guise of being bold and quite daring. It can work for a time; but in essence all of us now and in the future will continue to adhere to a set of guidelines to keep us safe, atleast feeling safe.
I don't really know why we allow ourselves to be controllers of time, and I don't know why we shouldn't be controllers of time. The winning argument is that you realise time is short; some have short tickers than others; so I guess we try and squeeze more time in for things; and sadly it seems not the majortity of those things are as simple and as grand as spending time with family and friends. All mod cons have cluttered our lives.
Freedom from these sometimes strict routines is a concept that differs to all of us. Freedom can also be held securely in these routines. Too much freedom, in the form where there's nothing to really do, can drive you mad and poison your mind, which is why a little bit of self-imposed fascism is healthy in my opinion.
But then also, if you're chained to a job you have no time to think (out of the scenario); you just do what you think is right, but you don't actually think, you just kind of react; and when yo
u go home you just rest; and when it builds you feel it closing in.
It's not abnormal though, to get as much as you can out of life. But you have to put as much in to make it work, but it doesn't always balance. You've got to work to live, you need free time to 'live'; you need to be jailed to be free.
In an ideal world we could work less, eat only when we really need to, and sleep as much as we want; and then excess time could be dedicated to the true beauties of life: being with other people. But as it stands we're in a bit of a mess (and I'm offering no solutions, sorry), and so it's easier to just feel in control than be in control; because we can't/don't want to. And this swaying weighted see-saw can sometimes get us up aswell as down.
It seems, that we have found happiness in slavery. But life is short; break out once in a while, break out as much as you can; break too far though and you'll just find you're in new chains. 'Freedom' is just sticking to/finding a new set of comfy rules each time.
We'll all return to our chains whether we wear our lives away on them or not. I'm happy! And if you can muster atleast a small dose of happiness now and again, then you're doing alright too. Just like all of us.
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