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Time
Are there REALLY Only 24 hours in a day?
We have a cat. We USED to have fish (the cat had nothing to do with the fact that we USED to have fish!). Day after day the cat would lie on the counter watching (scheming is more like it!) the fish. With one paw hanging over the edge of the counter top the cat, while time passed him by, would stare at those fish for hours on end.
Now, I don't think the cat (his name is Fiyero) had anything else going on. Chances are he didn't stop to think about time, and he didn't understand that the time he whiled away was lost to him forever. In a cat's life, or all nine of them, time takes a back seat.
This got me thinking about an article I had read in the newspaper. The Nielson company--that's the company that conducts surveys to see what TV shows we're all watching--had just conducted a survey and found that the average American watches 8.2 HOURS OF TV A DAY! A DAY!!
Wow, that's a lot. That just may be more time watching TV than the cat spends watching the fish. But we (humans) know better? We realize (most of us anyway) that when time passes us by, that's it. There's no "getting it back." And we know we had better use time wisely. We know that ... don't we?
Consider this ... let's eliminate just 3 of those 8.2 hours and only watch TV for 5 hours a day--com'n, that's still a lot of TV watching.
3 extra hours a day equals about 1100 hours a year and that gives us about 27 40 hour work weeks to do anything we want.
What would, or could, you do with 27 EXTRA 40 hour weeks?
What could you learn?
What could you improve at ... sports, chess, read more books, write a book, learn a new trade, simply spend more time with your kids, kids you could even spend more time with your parents!
It's just a thought I had while watching our cat stare, for hours on end, at those poor fish!