Saturday 24 December 2011

Buying Time

So people say that you can’t make time, or theres not enough time in the world. Well I have to strongly disagree cause there are so many things in the world that give you more  time: 
You can wake up quicker in the morning with coffee, by a faster car to get you places quicker, or get a faster train in the morning, the trains in Japan run by the second, work on the journey there and back to save yourself time. Downloads are the biggest example I see all around me nowadays, constantly advertisers are going on about faster speeds and the whole notion is amazing to me, back in yesteryear you would have to go out and buy music, take the bus into town and get a CD from a store, now all you have to do is press a button on iTunes and music is within your reach almost instantly. The same goes for DVDs, Games, Movies, Apps that are now all online. And who needs to go out shopping when you can get almost anything on Amazon and have it delivered. 
You don’t even have to go out and do the weekly shop anymore, stores deliver for you and all you had to was click what you want on some website. Instant messaging, movies on demand, catch up services, all of these things scream about how much time is saved if you think about it, you don't have to go out of your way to watch something on Tv when it’s on cause it’s online straight away. Fast food, instant meals, ready made, way back when you’d have to actually put thought into making food, make it from scratch, but nowadays it comes to you packaged and ready for consumption after fifteen minuets in a microwave. Just think about what machines do to things like factories and farms. They save time and money by making products and growing food quicker but they cut jobs in the process. 
Now i’m not against most of this stuff, well not really, but what I am against is the people who say they don't have time for the important things or say they need more time cause society today  is always creating time, for it to be only filled with something else, however society makes you pay for all those extra hours you’ve acquired through whatever means. Like sure you can get food shopping delivered to your house, but at a cost, those quicker internet speeds come with a price tag on them. But things like ready made meals may be cheaper but you can bet home made stuff would be better for you. 
So this is to all those people that say you can’t buy time, because I think it’s pretty clear that you can.  

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