Thursday, September 8, 2011
Isn't it About Time?
Time-wasting activities do not exist, only people who use activities to waste time. You become a time-waster when you participate in an activity for the activity's sake. You need to decide why you participate in specific activities and whether they help you achieve specific goals. As you prioritize your goals and focus your activities on achieving them, you will stop wasting time.
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I don't fully agree with this definition of becoming a time-waster. I will often go play a game of ultimate solely because I love the game. As long as there aren't bigger priorities, I would argue that it's not a time-waster. It only becomes as such when it becomes excessive or other priorities arise only to be ignored for the game.
ReplyDeleteI thought a lot about this. I think we should have goals to have fun, goals to be healthy, and goals to socialize with friends. Playing ultimate accomplishes all of these goals. I appreciate your comment because I can see how confusing and pointless my second sentence is. I think you are right. A better definition of time-wasting would be confusing priorities; however, I still think participating in activities that do not help us achieve our goals quickly become a waste of time.
ReplyDeleteI think the key statement in this post is the last sentence. I am a firm believer that goals strongly influence the kinds of decisions one will make. If my goal is, for example, to truly graduate college, I am not going to choose to waste all my time playing games or watching movies. If I do, then I didn't really have a goal to graduate. My goal was something else. But, if I have finished all of my priorities in a given day, and there are not bigger priorities, as Devin said, games do not waste time.
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