Can Time Really Be Found?

In the article “ The Busy Trap” Kreider tries to convince readers to chose time over money. He makes numerous points including how boasting about busyness takes the form of a complaint. He insults those who voluntarily take on obligations by remarking that they are obsessed with always being occupied. However, the basis for such a conclusion is founded on only a few examples of individuals who were negatively affected by the burden of work. In Kreider’s opinion it is wasteful to be busy all the time because life is too short to work more than 5 hours per day and not spend enough time in one’s happy place. What is your happy place? Picture it and stay there for a while letting your thoughts flow. Notice that your thinking becomes more positive and somewhat out of reach. Next, imagine a life with minimal stress that includes little to no work and much enjoyment; now you 're floating back to reality because that type of life is not in the grasps of most. Similarly, Kreider writes his article as if most people have plenty of time to waste, and to enjoy themselves, as he has. Kreider’s overall point that people keep themselves busy to escape the feelings of emptiness is both ignorant and a reflection of his narrow perspective of the world. His opinion that people feel apprehensive when not working, along with the fact that most people wouldn’t be content living the lifestyle Kreider is promoting, plus his support towards the propositions of full unemployment and a

Present-day American society is fast-paced and constantly moving forward. With so many things to do in such little time, busyness and stress seem to take over our lives. In “The ‘Busy Trap,’” Tim Kreider’s position as to why the audience should strive to avoid busyness is very well thought out, however, some of the points in the essay have faulty reasoning.

     One of the more interesting aspects that Peiss mentions about the change in the demographics of the labor force directly relates to the way leisure time is spent. Peiss mentions many statistics that show how the working woman was quickly refusing household work and moving to the factory or office position. More specifically, a study of 370 working mothers showed 70 percent of them to be employed in domestic and personal service while the vast majority of their daughters worked in stores, offices, and factories (Cheap Amusements, 39). The significance of this change lies in the resulting change in attitude about leisure time. Now, a clearer distinction between time spent at work and

Time is a valuable resource, and in fact, some people get more out of their time than others. Time is a scarce resource meaning that there is not enough of the resource available to satisfy all of the ways I want to use it. Due to the fact that it is scarce, this means that my time must be allocated in such a way that I can get the most out of it. Being a full time student, working part-time, and playing college athletics is a tough feat. In fact, most of the time I struggle in deciding what to do and when. What I choose to do is a demonstration of my value system and some things are valued more than others.

When employed labor is involved, productivity in terms of time becomes important, because the employer generally pays the worker in terms of time. For many jobs, then a shift from task-orientation to timed labor occurs, as the laborer’s time becomes the employer’s money. Thus, a separation between work and leisure occurs, as

Every single person on this earth has a passion. No, I am not talking about fruit. I am talking about is something that can put a person on top of the world or put a 40 ton wrench right in the center of a person’s gut. Passion. Comparable to a lot of guys in this world my passion is sports. Michigan State University athletics. Consequently, when a sports beat writer imposed that my team... my team 's defense was not “good” enough to compete at the highest collegiate level at the college football playoffs. Well, I just had to tell him why he was wrong.

We all have a busy life where unfortunately we all don’t get to focus our entire dedication to one thing. We are forced to focus on everything that is going on in our lives all at the same time. Focusing our effort and energy on different things at the same time involves us not putting our full dedication to each and every subject. When we go to work, work out, and spend some time with our families can we truly give our entire focus to each and everything thing of these? I believe it is impossible because while doing one thing our mind gets interrupted by the other things we have to put our focus in. Therefore, we do not all get to truly put our entire focus on each thing we have to take care of in our lives. I feel this is a great example

I believe what people decide to do with their spare time says a lot about who they are and what motivates them. There is many hobbies people choose to engage in, a couple I enjoy are reading and participating in relay for life. I love reading because it allows me to be taken to another place. Also Relay for Life is important to me because of all of the amazing things the American Cancer Society does for patients. There is many more reasons that I choose to spend a lot of my time doing these two activities.

Not many people have free time to think and process their own ideas or feelings toward certain subjects. While Montag is conversing with Faber, he states that people are given free time, but restricted from using it to think. Even while people aren’t busy, they’re busy with other thoughts. “Off-hours, yes. But time to think?

Personally I do agree with this statment, for the simple fact that with anything you do, you have to dedicate personal time to it. In life I believe that many people do not understand this concept. But thanks to my parents, I do know that with anything you do wether it be with every day realtionships, classic car building or raising a puppy it all takes your devoted time.

In Ian Frazier’s article called “In Praise of Margins,” the author argues that the whole world is “jammed” up, and that people need “Marginal” spaces and activities to gain relief from our hectic lives. People have to work to earn money, as said money, is used to pay for bills, food, and sometimes to earn even more money. It seems like people never have time to have fun or to be care-free. Frazier says that ”Marginal” activities are things that have no reason behind them like taking a stroll in the woods, or stepping on pieces of ice on the ground just to hear the crack beneath your feet. ”Marginal” activities are something that everyone should consider for their own daily lives because Frazier values both the creativity and the relief that come from “Marginal” activities. I must agree with Frazier, especially because “Marginal” activities can help people relax from their hectic lives. In my own experience, “Marginal” activities help me when I was still going to high school, it wasn’t tough, but I was overwhelmed at the large amount of work I had to do.

There is no escaping time. We can only hope to alleviate the burdens of time by filling it with activities we enjoy. Charles Baudelaire relays this message in his poem Get Drunk, where he advises his readers to "always be drunken". He suggests that his readers get drunk with whatever they wish. People have always had to choose between what they enjoy doing and what brings them money; often, people choose the latter and neglect doing what bears them happiness. This is what Baudelaire emphatically opposes in his poem. We should always be drunk with what makes us happy and not take our time on earth for granted.

While it is still uncertain what means we will use to travel into time, the fact remains that we have more to learn and far more discoveries to make before time travel can be ruled out. Since we can peer into the past, that means we always had the means to go into time. It is not in the manner

Christopher Morley’s article “On Laziness” (1920) claims that being lazy can be much more beneficial than going the extra mile and being what is seen as an overachiever. Morley develops his claim by providing logical explanations how those who are slothful are truly happy; he supports his claim by using a very ironic and contradicting diction and examples of allusions. Although the purpose seems unclear, Morley is really trying to explain that sometimes being a conformist may be acceptable in order to fulfill a sense of joy and satisfaction rather than dwelling on failure and unhappiness after having tried to do more than what was needed. Morley’s entire essay is very both very ironic and contradicting.

One detail that I am impressed on his article is the person is busy. The author tries to tell the audience most people’s day is busy, and they do not have free time to do another thing. As the result, Jay does not wish to become the slave of time. American workers are busy in following their schedule from morning to evening, so they could not have any free time to relax during the week. Thus, I realize as many American do, the typical American ways are that spend time living and doing their plan. The author used some examples in order to show