Time

Does it drive you crazy when you hear a clock tick? If time is a made up concept by humans as a means to effectively interact with each other. A common unit of measurement that everyone understands and that everyone gets a limited amount of. Some say that time is money. Some say that pleasure derived from materialistic things leads to unhappiness. But time is a material quantity too, no different than money. Everyone would like more of it, and it can be exchanged with other materialistic things. For instance, I can add a few hours to my day by paying someone to do my chores. In essence, I am buying time. I am exchanging one materialistic quantity for another.

So that being said, is procrastination no different than poor management of finances. Waiting for better times in the future, no different than wanting to be rich. Thinking about the past no different than buying something with a no-returns policy.

A common advice given for spiritual growth is to live in the present. Does that work for money and other materialistic things? If I only think about how much money I have at this moment and not worry about how much money I have in the past and how much money I will have in the future, would that bring peace into my life? My answer would be yes. I think it is easy to see that the live in the present rule would work for all materialistic things, including time.