These Golden Hours

Shivers 1These Golden Hours“You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.” - Ja mes M. Ba rrie, Bri tish PlaywrightIt is said that in some cultures, time passes more slowly. In reality, from the peoples of northeast Indiana to the peoples of Tongatapu, time passes at the same speed for every person today as it did a thousand years ago. Ea ch person has a mere twenty-f our hours, a mere 86,40 0 seconds per day to plan out their daily activities. In these minutes we plan our daily activities to squeeze time and have our unexpected events; attempting to use time saving devices has become a way of life for us. H owever, this has become a problem. Society as a whole has become a matter of us budgeting our time to fit every decision we make, making sure our golden hours do not slip by us – nevertheless, as Ba rrie states, some are only golden because of the fact that we let them slip by. In short, the reasons why we are budgeting our time and given the illusion that time is perpetually short is because we are attempting to recover our golden years, which are wasted by budgeting time and worrying over time being perpetually short.“Though I am old enough to have discovered that the dreams of youth are not to be realized in this state of existence yet I think it would be the next greatest happiness always to be allowed to look under the eyelids of time and contemplate the ...