#Microblog Monday 258: The Clock Overlord
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I just came off a week feeling very stressed out by the clock. The twins were at a camp, which was about an hour away with traffic. Every day, I had to leave work to pick them up, driving an hour to get them and an hour back. This meant the first part of my day was truncated to five hours, and the second part of my day was a balancing act of trying to finish work and make dinner and take care of everything else that needs to get done in the evening.
I hated the clock.
There is a town in Norway that is trying to get rid of the concept of time in their community. The people of Sommarøy figure that they’re already living off the traditional clock since the sun doesn’t rise and set in the Arctic in the same way that it rises and sets in the rest of the world. But reading that article made me realize that I still need my clock despite feeling strangled by it.
How do you feel about time right now?
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I definitely wish I had more time in the day. I enjoy all the aspects of my life right now, I just need a few more hours to spend on some of them!
Love the time this time of year :-). I love that there are about 15 hours of light, and it feels in the early light of the morning like there is enough time to get done what I want to.
(Then the interruptions and distractions come.)
I decided a couple of months ago that I need a healthy morning routine, which led me to decide to set the alarm for 5 am starting this week. We’ll see how that works lol. Even if they were to get rid of the concept of “time” we know it they wouldn’t be able to get rid of time entirely. somehow we are still governed by “time” however we define it.
Time is an illusion.
Ever since I’ve been an attorney in private practice, I’ve had a weird relationship with time because all of my work is billed to clients in tenths-of-an-hour. It’s really odd to break your days down into 6-minute increments, and I find myself thinking in “billable time” sometimes even when I’m not at work.
Your final line sums my view up nicely too. 🙂 I don’t feel quite as pressured by time since I retired. But at the same time, it just keeps flying by all too quickly.
This might not be the best time to ask me about time. First day of school, two hours of sleep, and had to be in a meeting all day. I wish I had more time, but I probably need the structure.
In some way, shape, or form we are all ruled by time. I don’t see any way around this, as JT above put it “no matter how we define it”. It’s very true.
The only clock that is bothering me at the moment is the calendar – the years are rushing by, and people around me are suffering and it only reminds me how short a time we have on this earth.