Time

The irony of today's age is that we have so much more usable time due to technologies such as electricity, faster transport, intelligent devices and yet we have the least amount of time now than perhaps any generation before us. All of the time that we grabbed from our days which would otherwise have been spent commuting, waiting for the sun to come up or do manual work, has somehow not come back to us. It has gone to our jobs, our consumption of media or simply into us wanting to do more. Today if someone found a better way to perform a task that they were responsible for -they would be rewarded a productivity award and an extra two hours of work on something else would be found for them. In many ways then the only way to really make time for yourself is to be inefficient- or seem to be so. Because if you are a productive person you can be sure that more work is on its way to you in the hope that in sometime you would have mastered that as well and will be ready for another challenge.