Time to Pay
"You don't really pay for things with Money. You pay for them with time."– Charles Spezzano, What to do Between Birth and Death
I like the idea that everything in life boils down to time. Evolution occurs in time. Life & death (the “cleaning cycle”), growth… – time is an inseparable companion of ours. In a way, time makes things happen. If there was no time, “happening” would be a worthless concept, don’t you think? In practice, most of the things we do are measured based on time spent - be it directly (e.g. wages) or indirectly (we still know how much time it took us to complete a task). In fact, our lives can be converted into time. How much have we got left? What value can we bring between birth and death? Scaring?
***1. How did you buy this new XYZ?I paid for it.* ***2. How did you pay for it?I paid with money.* ***3. Where did you get money from?I earned it.* ***4. How did you earn it?By working.* ***5. How did you work?**I used my time to create value (based on the skills & competences I have – I took the time to learn and incorporate them).*
We hear that time is a resource. Is it? Can we influence it? Can we make reserves as in the case of, say, oil or wood? Not really. Time flows. End of story. Time doesn’t give a darn whether we want to accumulate it, store it or make it stop altogether.