This Is This

One of the things I’d like to change about myself is my attitude towards time. While the secret of life might be enjoying the passing of it, time moves by me with a wheezing and a grind that probably wants checking out.

I remember Stephen Fry saying he wished he could be given the gift of time. Three months, nothing excessive, just a quarter of the year with no commitments, meetings, appointments or calls.

He promised he’d be eternally grateful for something he’d vow to use wisely.

I’d like to change that about myself - my views on it, I mean - but I fear I’d have more success changing time itself.

It probably comes from a professional life spent (and I do mean spent) in journalism. At work they not only have deadlines, but the work itself deals with time. There are notes on the desks of broadcasting colleagues defining time.

5 minutes = 0.083 hour
10 minutes = 0.166 hour
15 minutes = 0.25 hour

I spend time on this website that you spend time on reading, and I know that’s measured differently but it all adds up the same.

There are no two for one deals, no bargains, no guarantees and definitely no credit. So have a good weekend and spend it wisely.

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