Thursday, March 15, 2007

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?

8 comments:

Mildaite said...

It is true..often we don't have time to ask "how are you?", but if we have so it is not enough time to hear an answer. . . Yes, we need to change something. :) personaly I would like to have time to go for a walk :> who would like to join? :)

Pelene said...

oh, you are reading my minds mildaite :) in my draft it was written: "we don't have time to hear the answer to the question.."

Mildaite said...

I think it is common for many people :)

Meras said...

I have read this book (but not all), interesting thoughts about time

ichigiku said...

i agree 100%
computers and tv and everything else dosen't save our time! they steal our time!!! and they seperate us from persons, who are near to us..
mildaite, you won't believe!!! just today i was thinking about going for a walk to Santaka, and thinking about sending sms with suggestion to join me, but i didn't.. i was doubt if somebody liked to join me..

Mildaite said...

Brill, Inchiku! :) next time send sms :)

atikus said...

I don´t have time to thint about it...

It´s just a joke :)

but it´s easier think about it than practice :(

Pelene said...

:) tienes razon Atikus :) but at last we are thinking:)