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[totallyfrozen]

Very cool, matante. Thought provoking. A word to the wise but foolishness to the foolish.

 

[Unrepresented]

Well, that's fine but sleep is a commodity and we're humans. If someone was 100% alert and active for the full 86,400 seconds, they would be actually hurting themselves, i.e. sleep deprevation. Imagine that.

A lack of sleep is overcome using a variety of chemical means and allows you both additional time to work on your motorcycles as well as to discover the surveillance equipment that you know has been hidden behind the drywall in your apartment.

 

[Jeff K]

Well, that's fine but sleep is a commodity and we're humans. If someone was 100% alert and active for the full 86,400 seconds, they would be actually hurting themselves, i.e. sleep deprevation. Imagine that.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. If I don't use 28,800 of those seconds sleeping, I wouldn't have much energy to enjoy the rest...

 

[mellowinman]

I thought I was supposed to imagine there's no Heaven.

I heard it was easy if I try.

 

[Simo98]

Now the cheapskate in me will be up all night every night trying to get my seconds worth...

 

[St Drogo]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. If I don't use 28,800 of those seconds sleeping, I wouldn't have much energy to enjoy the rest...

Yeah. You'd get more seconds but they'd be worth less. Like temporal inflation. Keep it up and you'll get a catastrophic marketcrash.

 

[MatticusMania]

We've all heard "Carpe Diem" a million times but few of us take it to heart. Sometimes you need something a little more wordy to make it stick.

A few days ago I found an old diary I kept when I was 23 to 24. (I'm 37 now.) Reading through it, it seemed as though I had just written it yesterday. The same problems, concerns, ambitions, aspirations, dreams, everything the same as now. I realized that 14 years have gone by and aside from one thing (visiting Paris) I haven't done or accomplished anything I wrote about in that diary. Hence, this thread.

Life is what happens while youre busy making plans and all...
What kind of things are you looking to accomplish? Maybe those dreams you had then were too big to accomplish at the time and had to be put on hold until circumstances were better aligned 14 years later? When I look back at the stuff I wrote 10 years ago, man... things have changed a lot. But then, Ive never been one to dream big or plan for the distant future. Who knows if I'll even be around?

 

[FilterFunk]

My precious seconds! Haha!

And then, there is a John Lennon quote to go nicely with the OP and thread title... "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."

Great quote! If I'm sitting in my backyard on a perfect spring day just relaxing, am I "wasting time"? I have no intention of "going for it" every second of my life.

 

[MatticusMania]

Great quote! If I'm sitting in my backyard on a perfect spring day just relaxing, am I "wasting time"? I have no intention of "going for it" every second of my life.

Too often my free time is tied up in one activity or another that I cherish a good moment to just sit and veg out.

 

[DwaynieAD]

Thats a pretty wordy way to say, "Live each day to its fullest."
Or even, "Live each day as if it were your last, for some day youre sure to right."

Live each day like it's friday night?

 

[MatticusMania]

Live each day like it's friday night?

Oh man, that would kill me!