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September
Wasting Time
Oh you poor seniors and anybody else in retirement,
you are undergoing or causing mold on your body or
the loss of strength while reading that book or
taking an afternoon nap. It’s a waste some
say. That is, the gradual loss or decrease by use,
wear, or decay, oh your poor body and mind is going
to take the low road if you read that book. A nap
-- why destroy your mind with such an act of
leisure, that is doing nothing and wasting time?
After all, time is the measured or measurable
period during which an action, process, or
condition exists or continues, the point or period
when something occurs. And in this case that period
is called life and the time is today or now. And
since time never stops and has no beginning or end,
as far as we know these days, how can it be
wasted?
This all sounds like those days at work when
managing time was the ultimate goal; getting as
much done before the clock hits the go-home alarm.
You could do nothing else because you had to do
something all the time … except at the
distraction called a coffee break. After that, you
had to set out with your prepared plan for the day
without being further distracted.
Now we have a better idea what retirement is all
about. It’s ignoring the passing of time and
doing what you darn well feels like doing …
just because. That is to; blow, dissipate, fiddle
away, fritter (away), lavish, lose, misspend, run
through, spend, squander, throw away, or trifle
(away), all the time you want because no one is
looking or caring but you. It also could be called
sitting around, watching TV, reading that book,
fishing, bowling, and golfing, hunting, camping,
traveling, having a few beers at the bar or any
other waste of time called pleasures.
On the other side of the kitchen table it could
mean shopping, sewing, bridge games, decorating the
house, planting that garden that’s been on
your mind for a while, or even taking up an art
project. Or maybe taking the proper time and
cooking that delicious dinner for the family that
used to be prepared between quitting time at the
job and the all-are-hungry gang sitting at the
dining table pounding their silverware on the
placemats. “Time is the coin of your life. It
is the only coin you have, and only you can
determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you
let other people spend it for you,” said Carl
Sandburg. What Carl is saying is don’t let
others spend your dimes of time, they are yours to
waste as you wish.
So, retirement and wasting time is the same
thing. To retire it is required to waste time as
you wish, when you wish, and how you wish.
“Waste your money and you’re only out of
money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a
part of your life,” said Michael LeBoeuf an
author and businessman. But wasting your time your
way is okay when retired. Having the right attitude
is important. “Attitude is a little thing that
makes a big difference,” Winston Churchill, so
positive thinking about wasting time your way makes
for a good retirement; sleep on it or take a nap,
you deserve it after all the years of time
management.
©2013, Patrick
Kennedy
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- Nicolas Chamfort
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