How much time do you estimate you spent during your life killing time?

Ken Anderson

Ken Anderson

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How much time do you think you spend killing time, and do you wish you could have it back?

Note: I don't need a real number, as this is just a topic for discussion.
 
Hoot Crawford said:
"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."
— King Richard II, William Shakespeare

Hard to say - maybe it was all just a waste of time...
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A heavy duty philosophical point and extremely thought provoking !

After some deliberation, I think that if one has helped at least a single person navigate through a hard patch in their life, then one’s life is not wasted.
Moreover, if that aid somehow carried through to the next generation or even the next, then one’s life is not only not wasted but has set the initial foundation for others to build upon.

To @Ken Anderson’s question:
I take naps so yep, I kill a lot of time.
Otherwise, some of the things I do are, from the outside seem like I’m just waiting to die but are in truth, only beneficial for my own sake. Physical activity can be seen by others as being productive ergo time spent doing something but the mind and brain need activity also and sometimes that looks nonproductive.

So far as wishing I had my Killed time back, for the time it takes to do all that wishing and knowing that it cannot be done, would that not be “killing time” too?
 
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I can see that a part of the answer would probably include what it means to waste time. For much of my life, I viewed a night asleep without remembering a dream to have been a waste of time. Then there are the more obvious, such as watching stuff on television that is neither interesting or informational.
 
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To me, there's a difference between killing time and wasting time. Killing time is kind of like waiting in a doctor's office to be called in for the consultation, which of course is still "wasted" time but you don't get to choose how to waste it.

When I think of wasting time, it's more like reading or doing something pleasant instead of cleaning the bathrooms.

I waste more time than I used to, but it's my time to spend as I please.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
To me, there's a difference between killing time and wasting time. Killing time is kind of like waiting in a doctor's office to be called in for the consultation, which of course is still "wasted" time but you don't get to choose how to waste it.

When I think of wasting time, it's more like reading or doing something pleasant instead of cleaning the bathrooms.

I waste more time than I used to, but it's my time to spend as I please.
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Tomaytoe, tomahtoe. For me anyhow, in the end, that's "a distinction without a difference". I only used "waste" instead of "Kill" so I could use the Shakespeare quote. But whatta I know...
 
Time doing anything that gives you pleasure is not time wasted.

Sometimes in the early spring when the weather is still cool, but it is nice and warm under the carport, I sit out there and just watch the clouds go by. And count the contrails from passing airplanes. I have counted as many as ten before they faded. It might look like I'm wasting time, but I am actually refreshing my soul after a long winter indoors.
 
Like @Beth Gallagher said waiting in a doctor's waiting room for you to be called in for your visit, you sit there reading magazines you would never buy to kill time.

I would estimate in my 82 years at least 10,000 hours have been used killing time.
I estimate killing time at 4hrs a week in my jobs Alone. 4hrs.x52weeks=208 per year
208 x 41 years = 8528 hrs.
8528hrs. That's just from work, doesn't include waiting for doctors, dentist, lawyers, etc.
 
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