Wake up at 5:30/
Call mom/
/Speak to lead/
/Perform Analysis/
/Draft Email/
/Read news paper/
/Study for CAT/
/Read Novel/
/Call XYZ/
/Etc/
/Get CFL/
/Leave on Time/
We can have enough of money, so that we don't have to think about it before spending/wasting it, but can we have enough of time? so that we can spend it lavishly, finish the tasks enjoying each moment without any tension of meeting some deadlines set by self or others?
A delay of half an hour in getting up disrupts the entire day schedule i will go office late, come back home late, skip the morning 30 mins of newspaper, skip breakfast or have an express one (which is usually 400 Gm of Curd or a Subway sandwich), dress up in a hurry etc.
There is not a single moment during the day when i am not keeping a check on the amount of time i am spending in doing an activity, be it preparing a deliverable, writing a mail or attending nature call.
Their is so much tension in mind so difficult to try and remember all the things that i have to do in a day. A diary or notepad, seems indispensable for a day to end properly, and its so much of a joy if i am back home in time and all the items for today are crossed. I was never so meticulous but their is no other fucking way to remember all the things. In office, sometimes, simply trying to remember what all i planned to do in the morning a few hours ago, even that gives a bloody headache.
IT all feels so suffocating, not being able to do things at an easy pace.
Our for fathers never used to worry about all these things, no emails, no mobiles, no cars everything used to happen at the speed at which humans can work, now we are bloody forced to match the speed of fudging machines. And we also have soft-wares that tell us when we are going slow.
Quite a slave to machines, aren't we? :) So, isn't the answer to turn off technology at some times on a daily/weekly basis and reconnect with simple life as it used to be?
ReplyDeleteeach day, we see the evolution of a new gadget, a new software, a new social network, a new technology... and they all are always successful in making us addicts and forcing us to spend (waste) time on them. the result is that we've come lazy-bums and we're forgetting the value of time! i would like to go 20 years back in time any day and enjoy the feeling of not feeling guilty of having wasted my time.
ReplyDeletethe more gadgets we have to remind us to manage time the worse we become at it. sometimes i wish i was born in the 60s and listen to records and read books and that all of that would be NORMAL, and that NORMAL would be very different from the normal of TODAY.
ReplyDeleteTechnology is disabling us on the social level, as well as those precious moments which help us develop as an all rounded individual. It is sad, but "progress" is a very relative term. Maybe in the years to come, Mandeep, you will be bragging to your grandkids how "laid back" your times were! And how everything was so rosy and golden! It's just the price of modernization we are paying..simple.
ReplyDeleteWell written article!