How much time do we need?

Our grandparents can tell us about long evenings of winter then neighboures used to spent time weaving and singing at somebody's house or something like that. And nowadays we barely have time to ask "how are you?" when we meet a friend on the street. We are so busy! Always we are lating somewhere: to work, to a conference, to a meeting with our ewe lamb's teacher, to family dinner, etc.

Cars, computers, internet, mobile phones, washing mashines and much more pieces of new technology are created to make our lifes much more comfortable. And to save our time. But how much of us have time for reading a book? Or for meeting a classmate in order to talk about the past and the present? Or to build a snowman with our kids?

Usualy we say: "not now, maybe later". And the later never comes...

These ideas came to my mind after reading a book "Tyranny of the moment" by Thomas Hyland Eriksen. He says that we are living in the age of "tyranny of moment". It is neither good nor bad. Just slow time (time to read a book, to go to the theatre, to play with your own children, etc.) becomes a luxury thing in our lifes.

Personally I believe that namely slow time has a persistent value. So, maybe we can change something in our daily routine, can't we?