Time vs. Relationships

“Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.”

Carl Gustav Jung

We live in a world where we have “too many things to do”. Every day it seems like the time we have is never enough. That 24 hours, or better, that 86400 seconds, are not sufficient any more. The time that we commit to work is so hungry and aggressive that passes like the blink of an eye. Satisfied or not, we go back home motivated to do better tomorrow, or with the regreat that we could have done more. Our will of improving and achieving, is the force that drives us to wake up at 5, 6 or 7 in the morning, so that time for today is just, more. But in the end we know that when grinding, days are pretty similar.
If we show our daily objectives to a normal person, the first thing that he/she would probably tell us is “mad!”, “crazy”, “out of your mind”. And we love to be like that: “mad”, “crazy”, “out of the schemes”. Alone or together with our team, we use every single drop of our energy to accomplish what we want, to create something different, to materialize our dreams.

Is there something that can stop us? Nothing, except time. Time is the only thing that can work against the man. And this happens since the discovery of the wheel, since the first stone placed at the foundations of the first house.
“What if I could just do more!”. That’s the question that ecohed inside human mind. That’s the question that brought humans to build the foundations of what we see today. It was impossible for one person to hunt, grab the water, search for fruits and build the house. The aid and the strength of more men and women was needed. That’s how socities started to grow. Groups of people helping each other to live a better life. At that time they didn’t have the phone nor the computer. There was no Facebook or Linkedin. There was no way of keeping track of all the people. People knew other tribes mostly by chance, and the only way to ask for their help was to meet them again, somehow.
You know, is not that easy to do everything on your own.

Today the situation is different. Everyday we are able to connect more, to find more opportunities, to work harder. The “I’ll ask your help when we meet again” can’t work. Mostly because we live a busy and dynamic life which prevent us from building great relationships. Paradoxically it even facilitates the loss of contacts with time. So what to do? Take care of your relationships, because the people that you know are your unique allies for this battle against time.