Time that's never wasted.

 It can be successfully argued that our most precious commodity is time.  It is easily wasted, spent, lost, forgotten, and neglected.  All other resources come and go, but time goes only one way with no return.  It is an endless track with a speeding train that goes only one direction.  Moments and opportunities pass by very quickly.

Things like work, school, maintaining a home, and looking after one's self are all important and require some of this precious resource.  Lack of investment in any of these areas typically results in consequences with harmful, if not catastrophic, results.  The need to serve these task-masters inevitably usurps our time to the point of neglecting something even more important.  I am speaking of family and close friends.

As a commodity, time can be invested.  Like a budget, it should be parceled out to meet the demands put upon it, but thoughtfully and not according to last-minute urgencies.  Those who do not subscribe to the tyranny which time subjects us to are doomed to be controlled by it and will likely go on to suffer the loneliness that it results.

Family and friends are the center of what could be called our core existence.  Although providing for one's self and family is an essential part of time management, it need not be dominated by the tyrant.  Those that do its bidding are likely to end up without the support and caring associated by those we deem central to our lives.  The way to control it, of course, is to be the master, not the slave.

An argument is often made by those that are controlled by the clock that quality is better than quantity.  My response is to say that both are important and not to limit one because of the other.  Lots of quality time with those that are important to you is the only way to show that you care and desire to be involved in their lives.  Anything else is just an excuse.

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