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Position:Home>Philosophy> Do we really waste time when we are waisting time?Question: Do we really waste time when we are waisting time!? Why are we always in a hurry to go somewhere or do something that we say that "it needs to be done"!? Where are we going!? To our graves!? Let us watch the clouds and listen to the buzzing of the bees that visit the beautiful flowers in our gardens!.
Thanks so much for waisting your precious time answering this question!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Waisting time can be gaining time! I do need time for myself!. I must have time to think solely!. It's time to define the new era!. Our faith has been shaken!. We've lost confidence in our leaders and in our institutions!. Our beliefs have been tested!. We've discredited the notion that the Internet would change everything (and the stock market would buy us an exit strategy from the grind)!. Our expectations have been dashed!. We've abandoned the idea that work should be a 24-hour-a-day rush and that careers should be a wild adventure!. Yet we're still holding on!. And what about myself!? What do I really feel and want out of my life!? Just live day after day, doing what I am suppose to do, is it an answer!? I only can fill these blanks, if I take time from my routine and do something for my dreams, wishing a better world, caring for the people around me!.and going back toward my past expectations!. Days pass, nature is loosing, its privileges, the world is changing so rapidly and would I be only an expectator!? Don't I deserve to do something for myself and the people I do really love!? This is gaining time = gaining true life, I think!. LIGHT FOREVER BRIGHT AQUA! Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes, the idiom: Hurry up and wait!. We rush only to be stuck in long lines, to languish in waiting rooms, to vegetate in traffic or worse to be silenced by the call waiting feature, all for no apparent reason!. I can see how critical it is for an army to be well prepared for sudden events!. Perhaps we could call the rush a respect for short lives, anxious to be prepared or basic appreciation to things done in a timely manner!.Www@QuestionHome@Com !.A long time ago I read of a science fiction writer who addressed a learned gathering and described his day spent making a couple of calls, walking down to the Post Office to send a letter, having lunch, chatting with a neighbour, calling his agent and doing a spot of pruning of his roses!. He concluded at the end of the day that man's highest purpose on earth is to spend his days buggering about!. Bravo! I also have a notice that says "When this man is sitting gazing out of his window, he is the most valuable man here because he is the only one thinking!. Do not interrupt this critical activity!."Www@QuestionHome@Com It is so important for humans to have time to relax!. And here I do not just mean weekends away or the like!. In the '80s it became vogue in the UK, to scrap tea and lunch brakes!. This was a terrible mistake for two reasons: 1 Individual productivity plummets after 2 hours of work!. 2 Stress rapidly increases after 2 hours of work!. These are cosing billions in money and lots in personal life!. WHY!? I hear you cry!. If a person is tired then they make mistakes, slow down and not make the best decisions!. Stress cause 80% of all illness (NHS figures) This is billions in ￡s!. So lets all waste a little more time and become healthier and more effective!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It's like; Hurry up and wait! There comes a time in ones life where this all comes to a screeching halt!. Then you just sit and watch the world go by around you! You're not 'in the loop' anymore! But you've got plenty of time to smell those roses, if you can get to them! lol! (I'm not that old yet, thank God!) I can still get to the roses! lol!Www@QuestionHome@Com First of all it is the judgement of a third person who will tell this to you if they do not happen to see any result out of your activity/activities!.As far as you yourself is concerned you are not wasting but spending time on something which you want to achieve!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Nothing is wasted!. You are right!. As long as we see the wonders of Nature, as long as we take a stroll watching children playing and laughing, as long as we can be lazy and sit in a rocking chair by the porch, no time is wasted!.Www@QuestionHome@Com “To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders!.” Lao Tzu quotes (Chinese taoist Philosopher, founder of Taoism, wrote "Tao Te Ching" (also "The Book of the Way")!. 600 BC-531 BC) Www@QuestionHome@Com No thank Aqua !.!.!. after all, responded by pleasure!. In fact we have more time to observe the nature and small and good things of life !.!.!. She charges in haste !.!.!. !.!.!. update emergencies!. And we will thus obeying and making machines!. hugs!.Www@QuestionHome@Com You are so right, we keep rushing all the time but my question to you is: What exactly are you on !? I would really like to have the same, please !Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes!. Some ask daft questions too!. Ha!. Not really I agree actually, it's good to spend a little time, just to relax and take in the garden and views, etc!.Www@QuestionHome@Com sometimes our pauses become more important than any full schedule we had!.it's not only the scenery we miss by going to fast we also miss the sense of where we're going and why!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I only have time for a quick answer "Time" is a measure!. So my question is, Are we actually wasting ourselves as time passes!? Sorry gotta run!. I'm late againWww@QuestionHome@Com There is purpose to everything esp "wasting time"Www@QuestionHome@Com No, 'Wasting Time' Can be great for the Health; The mind & Body need a 'break' sometimes!.!.!.!.!!Www@QuestionHome@Com No love, no time is wasted as long as our brain and heart are still on!Www@QuestionHome@Com "I wasted time!.now time wastes me"_ HAMLETWww@QuestionHome@Com |