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If You Waste Your Time, You Waste Your Life
Time is the only asset we can’t get more of
This year has felt like the longest and shortest year I’ve ever experienced. Thinking back to March, before we went into lockdown here in the UK, it feels like it lasted forever.
It seemed to drag on for what felt like a lot more than 31 days. I remember being halfway through the month and feeling like it had been March forever. When March finally turned into April, it felt like the beginning of another year, such was the feeling that it had always been March.
Of course, this March wasn’t any longer than any other March I’ve experienced. It was simply to do with the situation we were living in. The pandemic was gathering pace and as this was a new experience for almost everyone on the planet, time seemed to slow down.
Think back to when you were a child. Time appeared to move slower than a tortoise. Years felt like they lasted forever. I remember looking at the clock during lessons in school and wondering how time could move so slowly. 25 minutes to the end of class felt like an eternity.
Theories abound as to why we feel like time moves much faster when we’re older than it ever seemed to when we were younger. One is the proportional theory which states that as you get older, each time period…
