Taking Time
In the time it takes to boil water for tea, breakfast is done. In the time it takes to brush your teeth, I am dressed. In the time it takes to say an offhanded remark, a sentence is made. In the span of 30 seconds, a commercial is over on television. Incidentally, also the same time the average knife fight lasts. Checking the email only takes a few minutes, enough to ruin a moment.
In the time it takes to post to a 'blog, a new day starts.
In the time it takes to finish a Guinness, an evening ends. A class is only three hours, yet in that span, countless lives have ended and begun.
In the space of a week, a man can remember why he hates to say goodbye. A boy can re-learn to climb trees, and a girl-cub can be taught the meaning of jealousy.
During a two-hour movie, popcorn is made, the alchemy of milkshakes is shared and a family is re-forged.
Time is always being spent, lost, taken, and wasted. We use it as a commodity since Henry Ford and mass production brought us the Industrial Age. Before then, you were paid by the job, on a salary, a retainer. The time clock, the wage slaves.
Time is always running out.
They leave Friday.
In the time it takes to post to a 'blog, a new day starts.
In the time it takes to finish a Guinness, an evening ends. A class is only three hours, yet in that span, countless lives have ended and begun.
In the space of a week, a man can remember why he hates to say goodbye. A boy can re-learn to climb trees, and a girl-cub can be taught the meaning of jealousy.
During a two-hour movie, popcorn is made, the alchemy of milkshakes is shared and a family is re-forged.
Time is always being spent, lost, taken, and wasted. We use it as a commodity since Henry Ford and mass production brought us the Industrial Age. Before then, you were paid by the job, on a salary, a retainer. The time clock, the wage slaves.
Time is always running out.
They leave Friday.
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