A Runt’s Rant: I Just Haven't GOT The Time!

Time is quite relative. In relation to that relativity, I would like to note that the mere sentence

‘I haven't got the time'

Makes no utter sense whatsoever and makes me sick to my guts.

And here’s why.

You wake up, have a shower, have a snack, go to work, go out for lunch, go back to work, finish work, go back home, cook some dinner, watch the news, spend eternity on Face book (MS Word seems to think that Facebook is wrong. I agree), stalking people that you don’t even like, play a movie, go to bed and then you repeat the process over and over again.

Now, first things first- if you did not have the time, mes chers amis, then how on Earth did you do all those things in a day? Unless you measure your days in pickles, you probably used up some time to do the above.

‘Exactly’ you say, ‘and that is why I do not have the time to do anything else; my time’s already used up!’

You are, of course, as wrong as all those people who thought that Mitt Romney had a chance of winning (not a political reference, honestly, NOT).

There are, for one, things from the abovementioned list that you could either combine or get rid of altogether.

For instance, you could listen to the news podcast WHILST you go to and come back from work (and be at least as smart as your smart phone…). Also, you could potentially do with stalking three rather than thirty people on Facebook (sod off, MS Word) which would mean that you would be spending about thirty minutes and not three hundred hours on the darned time- vampire.

But let us look at things from a more pragmatic and somewhat logical/ mathematical perspective:

S= V x T

Ergo

T= S/ V

Whereas ‘S’ is the distance, ‘V’ is the speed and ‘T’ is the time.

We have all been familiar with the above formula since the third grade and, yet, seem to be having immense difficulties with applying it to our everyday lives.

Logically, then, there are two things that you could do to get more time:

A) Increase the distance and keep your speed constant

OR

B) Decrease you speed and keep your distance constant

How would that work then?

With regards to A), what you need to do is occupy yourself with as many things as you can- various activities, hobbies, etc, so that you can increase the distance that you would need to walk. If you keep doing those at a constant pace ( re speed) you will become more organised, start allocating your time efficiently and will have more time to do other things.

With regards to B), all you need to do is set yourself an arduous and distant goal (re distance) and systematically work your way up through it at a decreasing speed. Logically, the speed should be decreasing because, in time, you will have done more and will, thus, need to do less to reach your goal.

So there you have it- all the time you can get!

In the light of the above, I do hope that I will never hear anyone anywhere say anything about not having enough time.

And, pray, use your time productively… Don’t go to

Hell With It!