Time

With the Industrial Revolution, ideas such as “Time is money”, “We can't waste time”, “Not producing something that generates money is a waste of time”...

And it turns out that most of us took these ideas to ourselves as the absolute truth. We wear this imposed social model and carry it to this day.

It is important to be aware that nothing in life is definitive, that we can make different choices and transform our lives so that we have more pleasure in living them.

I'm a history teacher, and when I ask students the motivation for which they study, the overwhelming majority respond: “To be someone in life”. They are so young and already bring this idea that in the future, if they study, if they follow the guidelines imposed by society, they can one day “be someone in life”. I always tell them that they are already someone in life, that the time to live and enjoy life is now and not wait to live in the future, as if it had no value right now.

As we grow, we follow the steps that were taught to us according to the social gears (studying, choosing a career, going to college, having a job that pays us what we consider a good salary, getting married, having children, and try to numb yourself from our choices on weekends). Let's forget to have fun, to appreciate lightness, to celebrate life, to do what is necessary with pleasure, to respect our vital needs, to rest, to have moments of pure leisure, as well as exchanges with people who love are significant and important.

We often end up surviving through a grueling and unpleasant routine, hating Mondays, putting up with the weeks, looking forward to weekends and holidays, and feeling depressed on Sunday nights. And this cycle keeps turning in the same way, consuming us, life goes by and we are there, meeting social expectations, fulfilling our “obligations”, playing our roles and forgetting that there is life to be lived.

Deconstructing the beliefs that "Life is like that", "Life is a fight", "You have to kill a lion a day", "Nothing comes easy", among others of the same content, is important to get out of this model of survival presented to us.

These impositions, ideas and beliefs, only make us robots desperate for a moment that can get out of the current mechanical rigidity, or make us even more rigid and repressed, to the point of wanting to impose, criticize and condemn those who managed to free themselves.

We can rethink the models that were passed on to us, question whether this is the life we ​​want, whether time is money or whether unhappy time is a wasted life.

We are much more than a cog in the machine, life is much more than paying bills and fulfilling obligations, we have many possibilities for change at our disposal. May we open up to them, see them and take ownership of our decision-making power over our lives, and be able to find ways to help us be light, independent, free, spontaneous.

This change may seem difficult, but it is not impossible. We can walk continuously and progressively towards finding ourselves as the free and autonomous beings that we are. Let us be patient and celebrate each step towards this awareness that we are truly masters of our lives.

Time is life, may it be lived with presence and freedom!