The huge difference between “killing time” and “taking advantage of time”

Haruki Atemi
Nov 6 · 4 min read

“Killing time” has become one of the imperatives of our society. Bored, terrified by the minutes they run, we feel obliged to undertake any activity that helps us to alienate ourselves from the incessant passage of the hands of the clock, as if we could avert our mortality, forget that time is the material of which life is made .

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