Time — A Unit Everyone Has the Same Amount of Yet Use So Subsidiarily
It does not matter who you are, everyone gets 168 hours every week and everyone has the freedom to utilize that time however they desire. Research analytics claim that the average person spends recreationally over 3.5 hours + on their phones daily. This adds up to over 24 hours weekly. With that 24 hours negated, this gives us now only 144 hours a week left to play with. If you on average sleep 7 hours a night, that means 49 hours are spent sleeping weekly giving a person then 95 hours left in their week. Research shows also currently, in 2018, the average American spends about 3 hours and 50 minutes (3.83 hours) daily watching television. That is approximately 27 hours utilized weekly pertaining to staring at a TV screen. After subtracting this daily activity to ones weekly time, that gives someone 68 hours left in their week. As we all know, food and liquids must be consumed daily to survive which is found to consume about 1 hour daily of your time equaling to 7 hours weekly spent. Grooming and personal healthcare is also something unavoidable and needed to be done everyday that computes to about 4 hours a week. All of these necessities give a person now 57 hours of time left in their week. Here is the kicker — if you are adult, odds are that you work 40 + hours a work week leaving yourself with only 17 hours of legit free time. After analyzing all these average time activities one spends weekly in their life, one aspect of this schedule jumped out to me in a concerningly manner. This concern is that the average human stares at either a phone or television screen over 51 hours a week. That means 30% of ones week is spent recreationally looking at a screen. Lets say that the time spent sleeping, working, eating and grooming every week are considered unavoidable necessities. Ones that are not done by freedom but more so just to survive. These activities add up to 100 hours of ones typical seven day week leaving 68 hours for someone to freely do what they want with their time. Out of the 68 hours left, the concerning issue I see is 75% of that leftover free time on average is spent recreationally looking at a screen. My question is — why do we choose to stare at screens so long during our limited free time even though we for the most part get nothing good in return from it?