How you treat time is how time treats you.
When you slow down and treat the days abundantly, it tends to go slower. As long as you do this mindfully, you’ll get more out of each one.
When you treat your days like a race against the clock, that’s when time starts to sprint in order to match the pace, and before you know it a whole lot of days will be in the past.
I saw a post on a Filipino account recommending the resolution of dropping Filipino Time in the new year… the habit of constant tardiness. While it’s good to be flexible and to be able to adapt and be punctual when that means something to the other people involved, I don’t know about abandoning it altogether.
The obsession with measuring time and precision only came about with industry. Trains, specifically. That’s not a bad thing, but there are drawbacks and there are other ways to live.
Spend some time on the islands and you realize, the days feel longer. And I believe that’s because they aren’t just seen as containers for a bunch of necessary tasks, but the stage for life itself. Having other points of comparison makes you realize how much the fast-paced Western world manufactures its own urgency.
How You Treat Time