Time Is Not What You Think
And you do not spend it, it spends you.
No where is the stupidity of human beings more obvious than in the way we speak about time.
“Do not waste time” — the classic adage of educators everywhere, even though well-meaning, implies that we have any ownership of time at all. And in fact, that time is something that can be owned, distributed, allocated and misallocated (“wasted”), like a resource. In reality, it is only the 12 sections on a toy that you own called the wall-clock that you own and can possibly waste. There is a little arrow suspended on a swivel, accurately calibrated to the movement of celestial objects that helps you play that game with your personal toy. It is a game. It is not time.
Time, is a rhythm. A cycle. A coming back home to something, again and again, and each time in a changed way. Time, is not your resource to spend. It is time that spends you.
So cast aside this idea once and for all, now, and fall back into the rhythm that beats everywhere in the universe.
And within you too.
Let your heartbeats tell you what time it is.
Mine says, it is time to rest, for a while.
