People value time differently. For some individuals, time isn’t more than a change between day and night, for others time has a bigger importance to them than just stating the sunrise and the sunset. Time is perceived differently from a person to another. People fulfill their time with their jobs, hobbies, sports, studies. Some waste their time doing nothing; they sit there and watch life passing by. Also, for a low percentage of people, time is money. The question is: which perception of time is the best?
First of all, people fulfill their time with their jobs, hobbies, sports, studies. Those people perceive their time in a good way because they fill it with the right hobbies to do. They don’t waste their day by doing one or two things. They add several activities to their days. For example, a teenager, he wakes up in the morning, he goes to school. When he’s back home, he does all of his homework, then he has his soccer game till 9 pm. After the game he comes back home and goes to bed. His day wasn’t wasted because he did many things and all of those things are essential in his of life. Those people’s lives are completed by those actions, however a part of the population doesn’t think the same way.
Second of all, some waste their time doing nothing; they sit there and watch life passing by. Usually, these types of people are the ones who have dropped out of school and spent the rest of their lives doing nothing because they can’t do anything. A lot of them become criminals and are sent to jail for a crime they have committed. In jail, their perception of time changes a bit, because they wait for the day they’re set free. So time passes even more slowly than it used to. This time spent in prison can be money they’re losing.
Third of all, for a low percentage of people, time is money. Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things, and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed. People, who make less than $20,000 a year, for example spend more than a third of their time in passive leisure: watching television, for example. Those making more than $100,000 spent less than one-fifth of their time in this way: putting their legs up and relaxing. Rich people spent much more time commuting and engaging in activities that were required as opposed to optional. The richest people spent nearly twice as much time as the poorest people in leisure activities that were active, structured and often stressful: shopping, child care and exercise.
In conclusion, time is perceived differently from a person to another. Every person has its own way of seeing time and using it. This cannot be changed because it’s the way people live.
