Relationship between time and choices

As the grains of rice pass through open hand palms is the same way time passes through the choices which make up life. With this metaphor, picture how your time slips away unnoticed in everyday life.

In this blog, I will talk about the relationship between time and choices.

Time appears to be an index reference of everything. Anything we do can be referenced in time.

Through choices is how we get to experience time and life as we know it. Ever noticed how time passed and you felt like you were just in a vacuum where you could not remember how things happened but happened anyway? That time somehow you felt like you have immunity over things.

Well, that particular time highlighted this: when we make unconscious choices we tend not to feel time but when we are conscious, aware of choices we tend to experience time. Note this "all unconscious choices are not bad".

Time tends to be an illusion when we define it with sciences or philosophy. From now on, you are going to perceive time differently.

Choices are made in time and if you make good choices, it appears that you are valuing your time. However, if your life rounds up from bad choices, after a while it might seem that you wasted/are wasting your time. The meaning of life is the one you give it. Every person can spot when he or she is wasting time, but sometimes we do not know that we are wasting time until that time has already gone.

If you can slice down the failures or successes you had, you can see that their roots were from the choices you made along in time frame.

Here the relationship between time and choices breaks into two main parts: perception and response.

From the above metaphor, you can see something very interesting, “the time between a perception and a response towards that perception”. It is between the perception and response where we decide and boom....make a choice.

we have seen in the first blogs that the primary purpose of the brain is to perceive, which creates the mind.

When you perceive some things, it is in your ability to either respond to that perception positively or in a negative way. What I am implying is the choice you make during that time which elapses between perception and your response. It is at this moment when time slips through your choices.

It is an instance of very much importance because if you can try to look back in life, you can see that the influence of your good choices and bad choices rounds up at this moment.

If we are calm and focused we tap into this short time which is very repetitive with our best version of our judgments.

However, if we are distracted, unconscious of the current situations, or not focused we tend to draw poor judgments or decisions through this important moment between perception and our response.

I like the words of Blaise Pascal when he said that “All humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone”.

According to Pascal, we fear the silence of existence, we ignore existential crises, we dread boredom and instead choose aimless distraction, we can’t help but run from the problems of our emotions in the false comforts of the mind, just to buy some more time to waste.

A lot of people fear boredom while boredom can have a good impact if you look at it from a different perceptive.

Sometimes it is during that time of being bored where you can tap into your true self and evaluate what is actually happening. to evaluate why this fish (life) is tasting bad at moment.

It is at this time where if you look at the patterns of your boredom you discover different reasons why the fish is tasting bad.

Always picture boredom as a sag on a rope that is supposed to keep its tension. Next time if you feel bored instead of letting boredom use you, mind over it and use it for your own good; because if you can’t find a deep sense of what you are doing or of your life, you tend to distract yourselves with different kinds of pleasure.

Seneca said that “The whole future lies in uncertainty, live immediately”. It may have happened to you to think that if it was possible you can go back in time and make different choices or consider other choices that were available at the time. Because, in the now, you are not happy with the way you are, and you can spot those bad choices that made you miserable.

The primary cause which can make you want to think of going back and make some changes in your past is to perceive things differently which would lead you to different choices and end up in different circumstances.

It is like you are mirroring a parallel life that can result from other series of different choices.

At one point we all said at least this once or more “I wish I knew that before; I should not have done it”. The whole point is not to go back in your past because maybe back then you didn’t know that your choices matter. All I am saying is to learn from those failures and mistakes that happened to you and be glad it happened anyway. We forge ourselves through our failures and mistakes.

Psychology says that a human mind needs something to disturb his/her soul in order to make good use of their time.

Mind your choices and your time will be more valued.

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