Time by Ali-Sha Alleman
Time is one of the most precious commodities one can possess. It helps us to self actualize and to fulfill our deepest desires and wishes. While it is often thought that time is linear, that is a misconception, it is circular as a pie with all the dimensions that include déjà VU, the stopping of time and time travel.
It is this metaphor of a pie that we embrace this concept of taking a slice out of life and that there is enough for everyone to enjoy. But is this really true? While time is a universal resource it too is allocated according to a person’s lot in life. If you are born poor, you are destined to a manual labor job that will expect above and beyond what you are worth and still not have enough to adequately pay your bills. Therefore to make ends meet you will have to get a second job either legitimate or not to make your expenses work. When it is said and done you have less time to enjoy the fruits of your labor. The time available to you is managing physical, financial and emotional crisis that come packaged with a poor person’s life style. When you wake up from your stupor you wonder where your time went, it was sucked-up in the production and survival machine called Life.
Is this all there is, it can’t be. You struggle to pull yourself from the chains of being a cog in the wheel and hope for another reality. The only reality is to move up the socio-economic ladder of success. Where you work equally as hard, intellectually—networking, wheeling and dealing, supervising staff to become stressed out. You possibly have more time, but you have to spend more money to enjoy it and distress. Are we all being fooled by this production machine? Yes. The mantra is to work 24-7 and excel, but what happens when you don’t buy-in to that philosophy any more?
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