It’s Time to Rethink Our Relationship with Time
Time is not ours to manage. But we do have some control over our experience within time. Either way, it shall pass.
The funny thing about time is that we tend to think it’s ours. This claim on time is why we try to manage it, take control of it, spend it wisely.
Time is more than just a resource we use, waste, or stress over. Time is the page on which our narrative unfolds. We live in time and through time — time is the invisible landscape of our experiences.
It is through time that we understand now, what is happening around us, what we are thinking and feeling. It is in time that we hold memories of what is past. Further, it is through time that we imagine a future of what will be.
While we often think of time as ours to manage, it is actually our experience within time that we have some control over.
Time will pass with or without us managing it. We don’t need to have the day planned or tasks to complete in order for morning to shift to afternoon to shift to night.
Rather than trying to manage time, we are actually trying to manage our experiences as they occur in time. We want to complete this task within this chunk of time. We have this set point in time…
