value

I think this week I have spent a lot of time managing my own time.  And, rather badly I feel.  I have had a couple of 20 hour days lately, some of them in a row, and it all kind of came full stop after 14 hours of sleep.  I probably could have slept longer, but I made myself get up.  No rest for the weary. Sometimes when things get a little too crazy, when things are really insane and there seems to be no end to work, that's when we seem to appreciate small moments of rest, small things that other people do to us, or for us.

I have thought a lot about laziness, about what it means to have a healthy life-work balance, about what kind of career path I want to take, and it all comes back to time.  Time we have to spent, time that is taken away from us.  All opportunity requires time.  All failures are often a misuse of the most important resource of all--time. 
 
We only have so much time to give, to spend.  Everything always comes back to our mortality, to the choices we make, and to how we choose to use the time we're given.  What is a better life...one that is packed to the gills with activity, or a quiet life of contemplation, relaxation and self-enjoyment?  What is a better use of time?
 
There's no easy answer to the way to live your life.  But we all have a certain kind of freedom, a certain kind of truth.  Everyone has time, even if they have nothing else.  It's all dependant on ourselves to how we use it.