"I don’t have enough time" or "I don't get the time to...." How many times a day do we say this phrase to others or hear the same from them? Have you ever wondered why? Why do we not have time? Why have our lives all of a sudden become so busy that we cannot spare time for anything or anyone?
Going back in the era of which our grannies speak of, life was a lot tougher. Everything had to be done manually. There were no dishwashers, washing machines, juicers or blenders. People used to do all these jobs manually. Can you imagine doing all that today? Certainly not! At least, I can't. And why is that? Because..........we don’t have time!
But then how come when at that time people had such tough lives, they still managed to find time to go and visit their friends and relatives and were very sociable too? They had time to look after their houses and children and they had spare time for parents, grand parents and grand children too.
Today, we live in the technological era where we have (thanks to the marvels of science and engineering) essential tools to communicate that have made life so easy. We have got telephones, mobile phones, smart phones, instant messengers, fax, e-mail facilities, social media networking sites like Facebook and Twitter and countless other ways to communicate including Whatsapp and Skype to everybody and yet when it comes to making contact with them its ages before we meet them. In fact, we don’t even get time to communicate with them indirectly over the phone or through the various facilities mentioned earlier.
What has happened? We have become technologically advanced for sure. Technology has changed everything we used to do, or perhaps more specifically made our lives much easier than they used to be. But, morally we have sunk deep down into an ocean of darkness.
We are trying to make our lives better but this has become more of a race. We are in a competition to get more –more than what we have and definitely more than what we need. At no point are we actually satisfied and this dissatisfaction has made our lives worse. We don’t have time even for ourselves for all that time is used up in making more money, fighting, being jealous of others or in other words losing our moral values! I wish we could go back to living in our lives in peace with more time in our hands for ourselves and others around us. Don't you?
Going back in the era of which our grannies speak of, life was a lot tougher. Everything had to be done manually. There were no dishwashers, washing machines, juicers or blenders. People used to do all these jobs manually. Can you imagine doing all that today? Certainly not! At least, I can't. And why is that? Because..........we don’t have time!
But then how come when at that time people had such tough lives, they still managed to find time to go and visit their friends and relatives and were very sociable too? They had time to look after their houses and children and they had spare time for parents, grand parents and grand children too.
Today, we live in the technological era where we have (thanks to the marvels of science and engineering) essential tools to communicate that have made life so easy. We have got telephones, mobile phones, smart phones, instant messengers, fax, e-mail facilities, social media networking sites like Facebook and Twitter and countless other ways to communicate including Whatsapp and Skype to everybody and yet when it comes to making contact with them its ages before we meet them. In fact, we don’t even get time to communicate with them indirectly over the phone or through the various facilities mentioned earlier.
We are trying to make our lives better but this has become more of a race. We are in a competition to get more –more than what we have and definitely more than what we need. At no point are we actually satisfied and this dissatisfaction has made our lives worse. We don’t have time even for ourselves for all that time is used up in making more money, fighting, being jealous of others or in other words losing our moral values! I wish we could go back to living in our lives in peace with more time in our hands for ourselves and others around us. Don't you?
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