Time

Time is a valuable asset. We never seem to have enough of it to do what we want to do and yet find ourselves trying very hard to make it go by faster. This paradox of sorts has lead me to wonder about time and humanity's interaction with it. Most people want similar things out of life, we want a job that doesn't destroy us while we are performing it, we want a comfortable home life with all that it entails and we want to have the time to pursue our passions. For a few lucky individuals our life and our passions overlap and we can have both at the same time. However, most of us do something to put food on the table as the expression goes and leave our passions to be our hobbies. So we trade time away from the pursuit of our passions, whatever they may be, in order to earn the money that allows us to have a comfortable hom life. One might then conjecture that time is the ultimate currency in life as we pay for everything with it. Want to be rested? Pay a few hours to sleep and you receive the good of rest.