"What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years lie behind us are in death’s hands.
Therefore… hold every hour in your grasp. Lay hold of to-day’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing… is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery that anyone who will can oust us from possession. What fools these mortals be! They allow the cheapest and most useless things, which can easily be replaced, to be charged in the reckoning, after they have acquired them; but they never regard themselves as in debt when they have received some of that precious commodity, — time! And yet time is the one loan which even a grateful recipient cannot repay." - Letters from a Stoic (Seneca)
It is amazing to me how much we pay to bide our time, to eliminate the boredom in many cases. As you age, time becomes more apparent. You begin to understand the finite nature of it and, for me, become selfish with it. You do not want to waste it and you do not want it wasted. For me, a bad movie is not just a bad movie, but a waste of time and that makes a bad movie much worse.
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