There is not enough time in a human life to attend to essentials, necessities and compulsions, and to also waste time on the superfluous, inessential, distractive and harmful.

Very few people are honest enough to add up the daily hours wasted. Most of the hours spent by most people in front of lighted screens are wasted. Bar time is wasted.

Long conversations using hand manipulated devices often are time-wasters. Talking to others about oneself and dramatizing personal trivialities is a waste of time.
We all waste time. In a sense, we waste ourselves. We are creatures of time. We may be time itself, because outside of the human brain, which recognizes changing sequences or mental states, there is no time.

There is movement over distance; there is change, sequence and cyclical and seasonal patterns; but outside of mankind, time does not exist. There is duration in nature, but not time.

Why don’t we value time? Why do we waste it, as if it were replaceable? Why do we not savor, cherish and better utilize our present time?

For those who realize that there is no collapsible or capturable present moment, because it has passed before we become conscious of it, why, then, do we not value the future more?

If we did, we would plan more; we would have more purpose in our lives; and we would not be so wasteful of our time in pursuit of experience and sensation.

Our sense of time past is disturbingly emotional, because there is so little to show for it.

– Raphael O’Suna