Time's Too Short.

Do you have enough time to do everything you desire in life? Every time I think of things I have to accomplish in life, I feel a stressful sense of time.

What's Time? Time is the endless process of reality and possibilities that occur in an irreversible passage from history, through the current, into destiny.

Why do perceive time as fastly passing? According to science, as we age, the size and intricacy of the networks of neurons in our brains increase electrical signals must travel greater distances, and thus signal processing takes more time. 

In addition, aging makes our nerves amass damage which provides resistance to the flow of electric signals, hence slowing processing time. 

Moreover, visual perception,  caused by slower time processing leads to slower fewer ‘frames-per-second’ hence more actual time passes between the perception of each new mental image, causing to time pass more rapidly.

At a young age, each second of virtual time is loaded with many more mental images. Like a slow-motion camera that takes thousands of images per second, time is therefore perceived to pass more slowly.

The concept in human thoughts about time is challenging and elusive. Learning and teaching about time is a foundation for understanding the nature of time in depth. Developing a temporal imagination is a concept proposed followed by reasons for valuing time.

It's better to know that life prevails within a period limited to an individual's lifetime assurance. Shrouded by events and information that make sense to me and in a dynamic myriad of life experiences. In this world of information, it's important to know which is of higher priority for the time being. Which is useful and useless information?

The article journal 'Time is tight: How higher economic value of time increases feelings of time pressure', shows that, when we suffer an economic pinch, it's when we feel like racing against time. Both income and wealth, affect the economic value of time, and influence perceived time pressure.

The perceived economic value of time causes greater feelings of time pressure and less patient behavior. Valuable things become very scarce and time stress overwhelms us. 

To normalize the pressure, we have to set goals in a way that we feel free and flexible to reach. Overstress over unimportant things, leaves us with less time to care for important things in life.

Paying attention to unimportant things in life may distract our attention from achieving great things in life. You may spend much of your time speaking and gossiping, leaving behind your objectives of achieving something important at the moment.

Many of us nowadays spend much of our crucial time complaining, and not making enough effort to make a difference in life improvement. We become victims of useless information and false hopes. We spend much time watching TV and using social media to share and gossip.

           
We don't know what tomorrow will bring. And it's wonderful that we still hope for a better future. Time is like a loave of bread in which there are several slices and in every slice, there are numerous tiny particles that make up the bread.

Every individual has a perfect share of a tiny particle of time. We are the tiny particle of the current history, the future is not certain. Time is what drives events and actions in life. We sometimes take it for granted not remembering that our future is now. That we have to plan and act now for tomorrow.

Don't wait until it's too late. The clock is ticking, the watch is counting.

• The time to forgive is now.

• The time to care and show love is now.

• The time to make it right is now.

• Time to make things new and just and better is now.

• The time to share what is useful and important is now.

• The time to show gratitude is now.

• The time to spread positivity is now.

• The time to start is now.

•  The time to speed up is now.

•  The time to finish what you started is now.

"Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying".Christian Gellert

If we don't care about what we are doing at present it's when we lose the meaning of time. If we care about what we do every day, we can look back in time and realize how and what we can accomplish in our lives be it in farming, class, business, sports, security, engineering, health, and so on.

"We only have one life and one body to care for, and we better do it right. You never know what tomorrow may bring and so we better live this life the best we can and be grateful for everything we have".Novak Djokovic


Life is sometimes good when we lose track of time. We count blessings after a hard day and revise our goals, we dream again to see what tomorrow will bring ready to adjust according to change.

"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one".Wayne Dyer

Our time expires when our efforts are no more. We live every day in one life and desire a lot. We wish to walk a walk, while we talk the talk. Walking and talking can't go together. Work and flexibility to changes in time are all we require in this life.

Thoughts die within ourselves when we don't appreciate the time and life we got to live. Opportunities, and places in life pass, leaving us chained to our dreams and misfortunes. 

It becomes history every time I take a breath of a fresh start of new things. Knowing that it's not my last moment, keeps me doing and eventually moving the needle of my lifetime.

Reference:

Bluedorn, A. C., & Standifer, R. L. (2006). Time and the Temporal Imagination. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 5(2), 196–206. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40214366

 Bejan, A. (2019). Why the Days Seem Shorter as We Get Older. European Review, 27(2), 187-194. doi:10.1017/S1062798718000741

DeVoe, S. E., & Pfeffer, J. (2011). Time is tight: How the higher economic value of time increases feelings of time pressure. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(4), 665–676. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022148

Heim S and Keil A (2017) Too Much Information, Too Little Time: How the Brain Separates Important from Unimportant Things in Our Fast-Paced Media World. Front. Young Minds. 5:23. DOI: 10.3389/frym.2017.00023