700 Common Words Exercise No. 27
Time, as we have remarked before, is the most valuable
thing that we have to spend. We can use our time or we can waste it, just as we
can use of waste our money. There is one very important difference between time
and money, however. All the people who are reading these words won different
amounts of money no two people, in all probability, would be found to have just
the same sum, down to the last penny, if all the money to which they had a
right were put down on the table. But everyone has the same amount of time. We
all have our 24 hours each day, and for every one of us the hour will supply
just sixty minutes of time, no more and no less. The minute will give us sixty
seconds, no more and no less. The minute will give us sixty seconds, no more and
no less and there is nothing whatever that we can do about it, try as we may.
Sometimes we long to make time pass more quickly because we are waiting for
something wonderful to happen, and sometimes we long to make the time pass less
quickly because we like the present moment so much. Science, which has done
such wonderful things, has not yet found a way to change this regular passing
of time. It does not seem certain, however, that time is really quite the same
for every one of us. It is true that we cannot get away from the seconds,
minutes and hours of each day, but it is possible that some people have a
feeling for time which is different from that of other people. This may account
for the fact that there are people who seem to be able to get through a great
amount of work in quite a short time while there are others who, no matter how
hard they work, seem to get very little done. This is not the result of any
real difference in time itself, however; it is probably owing to a difference
in the way that our minds work. If one person has a mind that is very quick,
that sees the point of some remark at once, that knows the answer to a question
almost before the question has been asked then that person is certainly likely
to do more in any given time than the person who needs to look this way and
that before seeing the point of a remark, and who has to think hard and long
before being able to answer a question. That is a difference in the mind, not
in the passing of time. Much of our time is spent at work, in school, office or
home, but it is a poor day that offers us no time at all to spend how we like,
and the way we spend those few hours that we have to ourselves differ from
person to person. In these days quite a considerable part of people’s free time
is spent in watching TV. Before the coming of TV people spent more time with
the radio. Before the radio came three were the pictures, and before that there
were books. All these ways of spending time now exist together, and we have
many ways of keeping ourselves interested. It has always been considered
respectable to read books. Even when a person spent rather too much time upon
reading, sitting up at night when he should have been in bed, he was in some
way respected for this. To read was to learn and to get knowledge was a good
thing. But, of course, many people did not read to learn. Many read light books
love stories, for example and when young people read such stories their mothers
would say that they were wasting time and that they did not read such things
where they were young. When it came to going to the pictures the pictures were
not considered quite respectable. It was perhaps all right to go to the
pictures, say once a week but to go more often was somehow not quite the thing,
and when young people did anything wrong it was put down to the bad influence
of the pictures. The possible bad influence of the pictures. The possible bad
influence of light reading was no longer remembered, and the old people of the
new day would say that they did not go to the pictures in their young days.
Today it is the turn of TV. Watching YV night after night is often said to be
the cause of wrong acts committed by young people because, of course, the old
people of the still newer age did not watch TV in their young days. Perhaps a
form of pleasure has to be more or less out of- date before we can consider it
a respectable way of passing the time?
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