Almost out of time – or maybe not time peace enjoy part one of three

YOU’RE ALMOST OUT OF TIME—OR MAYBE NOT

Peace, Joy and Time

This morning—well in the night sometime I woke up hungry.  Now, I didn’t rush right out to the kitchen (oh sometimes a I do so I’m not judging anyone here).  I thought about asking my phone what time it was....then I stopped.  What does  time have to. Do with hunger?  Well I listened to  part of  an audio book and after a good half hour I felt hungry still so I thought about. My options.  I decided on toast.  Someday I’m going to write about toast but today I’m writing about time.  

So I’m standing in the kitchen breathing in the smell of toast because  we have this fancy toaster and. I never  have learned what settings to use so I pop the toast out when I think it is done.  “You should just learn how to  run the toaster Mr. Brilliant,” I can hear you thinking it so you don’t have to say anything.  NowIget a little butter and sugar out, put it on the toast and of course that means it’s time to eat?  Nope, of course not—it’s time for a trip to the bathroom because when you get to be a certain age waking up always means a trip to the bathroom unless you fell asleep in there—but that’s probably another story.  

Well, it’s still dark out but now I have toast and life is  good.  Now I could pay attention to  the toast I made and enjoy it, but I just start chewing semi-burned bread and wondering how long till the sun comes out?   Off course that train of thought moves right into the tunnel of “whendo we turn the clocks back?”

Yes in a couple weeks some of us will move the entire clock back an hour and then agree we are actually living at a different  time than we were just a few seconds before that... I propose that each of us gets  to move the clock backward or forward an hour twice a year, however, it would just last that day and we could  have the hour like on our birthday or when we have a layover at  the airport—whatever...

Okay...okay...it. Is time  to get seriously to the. Point here.

After my toast I listened to a “self-help” podcast and the host said “We. All need to make moretime for the important things in our life.”  Well I have a coffee maker, and I’ve seen a bread maker, however I searched Amazon and I didn’t find a time maker.  I did find a  left-handed banana slicer.  Now, I understand that  these folks were saying I. Need to use my time differently.  Unfortunately, they talked about becoming more efficient and effective What they were really talking about was  going faster or not doing some things.  

That argument sounds so good in theory, however, I stopped to consider it a bit more.  Well what would I. Cut out.  I spend a lot of annoying time shaving every year and yet facts indicate that. The average adul male beards  only grows about six inches per year Oh and I like to eat Ketchup or catsup on some things and talk about  a time waster?  The average speed at which  that fine tomato based yum leaves the  bottle is 35 miles per year.  Maybe I could go to self-checkout at the  grocery store instead of  standing in line....because. It’s  faster right?   Well let’s see...there is me who runs the  register at self self check maybe 100 times a year tops and there’s a trained cashier who  serves thousands of customers a year—who do you think might be faster?  But if you want, go ahead serve yourself—run to your car—get on the road and when the stop light turns. Red—thanks for playing the time savings  game...pick up your consolation prize.  

What if faster has nothing to do with saving time.... what if we  look at using time to create experiences a that we value regardless of  what a clock says?  

What if  we realize when we are enjoying something and open up all our senses in order to pack in far more  sensory info into our present moments?  When someone  says something that makes. You laugh, go ahead ad smile right out loud and if that makes someone else smile then that’s efficient—I mean a laugh and two smiles coming from one event—that’s efficient and effective and how long did it take?  Who cares?

Share. A creative idea with someone.  You both can probably grow the idea faster that either. Of you could do that separately and bam!—you have saved some more time!  

Okay....I’m going to stop for now because you’ve used enough of your time for. Now.  I’ll be back on. This topic tomorrow and the same bat time.    Until then I’m going to think about how to  connect my ketchup bottle  to a power washer or. A Wagner power painter...35 miles per year just won’t  cut it.  :)