Time Is Not a Tool

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The slippery eel of modern existence.

You try to hold it. It wiggles.
You try to manage it. It mutters something about “linear frameworks” and runs off.
You try to use it efficiently and suddenly it’s Thursday and you’re still mid-Tuesday in your brain.

Bloggyness is here to say: maybe time isn’t a tool. Maybe it’s a very dramatic houseplant, thriving one day, wilting the next, always demanding a little sunlight and a lot of emotional support.

• Monday lasted three entire emotional chapters.
• A 30-minute meeting bent space and became an era.
• One afternoon felt like a pocket universe. I don’t know what happened, but I emerged wiser and slightly hungrier.

I tried to “track my hours” once. My notes just said:

• 9:00–10:15: Existential flailing
• 10:15–11:00: Writing something almost coherent
• 11:00–12:30: Light bureaucratic despair

Look. We measure time with clocks. Calendars. App reminders. Pomodoro tomatoes. But inside your head? It’s vibes. VIBES.

(Not Patent Pending)

Time is not for slicing. It’s for sipping.

Instead of blocking out your calendar like a fortress, maybe just let it breathe a bit. Let it doodle in the margins. Let it swirl.

If you must plan your day, try this:

• 8:00am → foggy softness with coffee
• 10:30am → mild chaos, with a splash of optimism
• 2:00pm → existential meme scroll with snack interlude
• 4:30pm → gentle wrap-up disguised as productivity

Time doesn’t care if your productivity app has a dark mode.
Time wants to dance. Or nap. Or read the same sentence three times while your brain does interpretive ballet.

(Absurd But Surprisingly Effective)

• Rename your lunch break to “existential reboot.” Watch how it transforms.
• Give yourself one floating hour a week. Float how? No clue. Just… float.
• Replace “urgent” on your to-do list with “happening soon-ish.” Feel the relief.
• Log your day using moods: “grumpy fog,” “accidental brilliance,” “brief encounter with competence.”
• Schedule a meeting with your schedule. Refuse to attend. Power move!

Maybe time isn’t meant to be used at all.
Maybe it’s meant to accompany us – like a slightly unpredictable friend who shows up with snacks and odd insights.

Next time your calendar throws shade, whisper back:

“That meeting’s been ceremoniously rescheduled for ‘when the muse decides to arrive, with snacks..’”

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