“I did make a conscious decision, a long time ago, to choose time over
money, since I’ve always understood that the best investment of my
limited time on earth was to spend it with people I love. I suppose it’s
possible I’ll lie on my deathbed regretting that I didn’t work harder
and say everything I had to say, but I think what I’ll really wish is
that I could have one more beer with Chris, another long talk with
Megan, one last good hard laugh with Boyd. Life is too short to be
busy.”
-Tim Kreider
Another great thing from his article that is called "The Busy Trap"
"Even children are busy now, scheduled down to the half-hour
with classes and extracurricular activities. They come home at the end
of the day as tired as grown-ups. I was a member of the latchkey
generation and had three hours of totally unstructured, largely
unsupervised time every afternoon, time I used to do everything from
surfing the World Book Encyclopedia to making animated films to getting
together with friends in the woods to chuck dirt clods directly into one
another’s eyes, all of which provided me with important skills and
insights that remain valuable to this day. Those free hours became the
model for how I wanted to live the rest of my life."
" Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as
indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of
it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space
and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing
back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections
and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration — it
is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done."
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