Spending our lives

# Chapter 97

How are you spending your life? If you made a chart of all your 24 hour days, and listed out how much time you spent on each activity what would you discover you think? I am pretty sure that the first three or four would be no surprise to anyone, and that the last three or four would be a bit shocking. Of course for most people sleep and work are going to be the first two. For some its sleep as the number one and for some work will be the number one. After those two, all bets are off, because we are terrible at guessing how we spend our time. My dad consistently insists that he rarely talks on the phone and that he watches very little TV. The objective facts tell quite a different story though, he watches hours of TV and talks on the phone for hours a day. This I know because of the weeks and weeks I spend with him, and when I am not with him the hours and hours that I talk to him on the phone. What he really thinks is that he watches far less TV and talks on the phone far less than he imagines other people to do.

The only way for you to actually map this out is write it down. I know I know that sounds really boring but you you only have this one life and how you spend it is how it is spent. And then it is over. Don’t you want to know how you are actually spending life? Don’t you want to understand how it is being lived? Don’t you want to see objectively how you are living it out? Then get your spreadsheet to work.