Daily writing prompt

Do you need time?

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The quick answer – NO!

In my experience, the more time we buy, the lower the productivity. The longer we live, we are faced with nothingness. And what is time anyway? Is it something we humans have discovered or invented? How did the calendar come about? How did we choose the idea of age? And why did we choose to tag every single act of life with time?

Diving life into childhood, teenage, adulthood and old age; the time needed to finish education, start a life, etc. The list is long. What if life did not have to be this hedonic treadmill? What if every year did not have to feel the same way with changing seasons, upcoming festivals, school, college and work breaks from time to time? Would that refrain from making us creatures of habit? Would be look forward to a more fluid and unstructured life?

Needing time feels like prolonging an activity or a phase of life. It feels like being in a space where one feels incomplete or waiting to get to a point or goal. Needing time feels like not being in the present or not being mindful. So time, well, let’s say is our idea to structure life. If we remove it from the equation of accomplishments, would life seem any better or different from death?