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    How to Save Time and Not to Die Trying
    How to Save Time and Not to Die Trying
    How to Save Time and Not to Die Trying
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    How to Save Time and Not to Die Trying

    By Claudio Pardo Molina

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    This essay is based on the dialogue, On the brevity of life", written by Lucio Anne Seneca in 55 A.D. I wrote this essay adapting Seneca's dialogue; due to its impressive validity being written more than 2,000 years ago. I believe that Seneca's recommendations, adapted to current examples, enabling many people to make better decisions with the most valuable asset we have, I am referring to our time.
    I am interested that together discovers the immense wisdom that comes to us from the past, and that could make us avoid so much suffering from the misuse of time. Reading is listening. I guess reading that type of document is like being able to listen to the human being's experiences with a more common sense he wanted to guide us a long time ago, and whom we were not lucky enough to meet in person.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBadPress
    Release dateAug 26, 2020
    ISBN9781071563526
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      How to Save Time and Not to Die Trying - Claudio Pardo Molina

      Introduction

      This essay is based on the dialogue, On the brevity of life", written by Lucio Anne Seneca in 55 A.D. I wrote this essay adapting Seneca’s dialogue; due to its impressive validity being written more than 2,000 years ago.  I believe that Seneca’s recommendations, adapted to current examples, enabling many people to make better decisions with the most valuable asset we have, I am referring to our time.

      I am interested that together discovers the immense wisdom that comes to us from the past, and that could make us avoid so much suffering from the misuse of time. Reading is listening. I guess reading that type of document is like being able to listen to the human being’s experiences with a more common sense he wanted to guide us a long time ago, and whom we were not lucky enough to meet in person.

      Chapter One. Illusion of Lack of Time

      One

      Most people I know complain about not having time. They blame their Mob, their family, the state, the system, life, God. Since we were born to live for a very short time. I am talking about 80 or maybe only 100 years. We feel that time goes by so fast and so Tick that most people run out of time even as children, at the stage when they are planning their life.

      Two

      Lack of time is so common that it has given rise to popular expressions such as Time flies by...  or All time spent was better.... Even thousands of years ago, the famous Aristotle was surprised to observe that animals have so much life span that they can live together for five or ten generations like dogs, cats, or rabbits. However, it would be a good thing if one of us got to know his great-grandmother. Even so, it would be much more difficult to talk to a fourth-grader if he had enough time to be clear-headed. Whereas humanity that has been born to do so many and great things, it feels that it has a much shorter life.

      Three

      More than 2,000 years ago, Seneca wrote that we have not a shortage of time; nevertheless, we are losing it a lot. Life is very long, and we have enough time to do the things we consider important if we are well organized.  But if we stander it for show or for simple idleness, spending our valuable time on useless things. At the end of our days, we will realize that our life passed without even being aware of it.

      Four

      Life is not short, but we make it brief. We are not beggars of time but unconscious spenders. It’s the same idea of what happens to people who don’t know how to manage resources

      when they win a big lottery prize.  In the end, they end up poorer and worse than before. Some families are divided by the interest of money losses. That is what we constantly see with famous football players who end up poorer than before, in comparison to their most humble origins.

      The exact opposite can be observed when a person receives the news that he has little time left to live. This individual can make its scarce time grow into better things in life only with better organization.

      Chapter Two. We Are not Rational Beings

      One

      Why do we complain about the hustle and bustle of life? Life has no feelings or bad intentions. If we know how to use time well, it will be long and sufficient. But some people have an insatiable greed for being busy. Others live busy in superfluous activities. Some live by getting drunk or high. Also, we find those who live lazily or those who spend their time satisfying the interests of others. Moreover, we may meet people so obsessed with money and accumulation that they spend all day negotiating or thinking about how to earn more property or cash. Some live so preoccupied that they fall into a paroxysm of doing nothing to avoid risks or causing risks to others.

      Today you can see how many of us are consumed with satisfying the demands of our loved ones and superiors. They do it through different means, such as social networks like WhatsApp, emails around the clock, or phone calls with different requests. Eventually, we end up consumed by voluntary enslavement of our time.

      Two

      Many people do not spend any time on topics of real interest simply because of the possible bad opinion of others. Conversely, they live in work and family roles distressed with being what they should be without even thinking about their own dreams and expectations.

      Most people live their lives without any specific goal or clear time frame. They waste their time with incredible frivolity. This conduct leads them to be steadily unhappy and changing constantly their interests. Some of them do not like to be given any guidance as to what their lives might be destined for. However, at the time of their death they are found bored and waiting. A saying of the ancient Greco-Roman oracles comes into effect, which warns us In life, there is very little that we really live because all the remaining space is not life, it is mere time.

      Three

      A lot of young people and professionals are harassed by vices everywhere: at the gym, at work, at school, at the university, on the street. They are so disconnected from reality that they cannot stop to think about themselves, not event to begin the search for self-knowledge. They are so addicted that they are subject to spending their time on pornography, sex, drugs, alcohol, food, or any other vice. They dominate their decisions by physical impulses that become a guilt once satisfied.

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