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WE LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE: - TIME IS MONEY - TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE - TIME IS EVERYTHING SOME OF US HAVE A LOT OF IT, SOME WASTE IT AND SOME SPEND ALL OF IT DOING SOMETHING THEY DON'T LOVE. |
TIME IS COMPLICATED AND ITS LIKE A TWO FACED FRIENDSHIP THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIGURE OUT. WHEN I SAY TIME, I DON'T JUST MEAN A CLOCK OR A WATCH STUDYING THE MOVEMENTS OF THE HAND UNTIL WE CAN LEAVE SCHOOL OF WORK, ETC. WHEN I SAY TIME I MEAN EVERYTHING, WHETHER THAT BE TIME TO YOURSELF OR METAPHORICAL TIME. ITS ALL |
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IM JAZZ TOPP AND TODAY I'M GOING TO BE TAKING YOU THROUGH THE JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY, FIGURING OUT WHAT TIME EVEN MEANS. AND WHAT LITTLE OF IT WE ACTUALLY HAVE. I'M GOING TO BE TALKING TO YOU ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF IT IN EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF OUR SHORT LITTLE LIVES. |
SCHOOL.CLASS.BOOKS.HOMEWORK.STUDYING.HOME.WORK.EAT.WORK.SLEEP. THATS HOW IT GOES, AT LEAST RECENTLY. FROM YEAR 7 TO 9. I HAVE TO BE HONEST, I WAS A HORRENDOUS STUDENT. |
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I USE TO HAND IN THE SAME MATH HOMEWORK EVERYDAY AND MY TEACHER WOULD NEVER SAY ANYTHING, BECAUSE HE GAVE UP ON ME. I FAILED MY END OF YEAR CHINESE EXAM, TWICE. I COULDN'T WRITE AND ESSAY OR A SENTCE FOR THAT MATTER. WHY? BECAUSE I SPENT NO TIME ON SCHOOL WORK, I DIDN'T REALLY SEE THE POINT. |
I DIDN'T LIKE SCHOOL, SO WHY WASTE ANY TIME ON IT? INSTEAD, I SPENT ALL MY FREE TIME HANGING OUT WITH MY FRIENDS AND LAUGHING. IN THE MOMENT, IT WAS FUN AND ENJOYABLE. TIME SEEMED TO BE MY BEST FRIEND BECAUSE IT DIDN'T SEEM TO SPEED UP OR SLOW DOWN, BUT INSTEAD, MAINTAINED A STEADY PACE. |
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ALLOWING ME INDULGE IN THE COMFORT ZONE OF AN INFINITE MOMENT IN MY LIFE. I HAD BECOME LAZY BECAUSE TIME WASN'T RACING AGAINST ME. MAYBE MY CONNECTION BETWEEN TIME AND SCHOOL IS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND BUT WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT I WAS IN THIS STAGE WHERE I BELIEVED I WAS INVINCIBLE. |
I GOT AWAY WITH EVERYTHING, I SPENT EVERY WAKING MOMENT WITH MY FRIENDS AND I DIDN'T HAVE TO WORK. THIS IS BECAUSE I BELIEVED THAT TIME WAS GRANTING ME THE UPPER HAND AT LIFE. THEN TIME SLOWED AND STOPPED AND I REACHED YEAR 9 I HIT A BUMB ON THE ROAD. AND TIME, HAD BEGAN TO STOP BEING MY FRIEND. |
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I WAS CHANGING SCHOOLS, NOT JUST ANY SCHOOL, CHINESE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL. MEANING, IF I WANTED TO GO TO ONE THE BEST SCHOOLS, I HAD TO CHANGE MY WAYS. I STARTED WORKING A LOT HARDER, MEANING I PUT MORE TIME INTO SCHOOL... A LOT MORE TIME.... |
SPEED UP TO THE PRESENT, I SPEND ALL MY TIME EATING, BREATHING, CONSUMING WORK. MAYBE WE COULD BLAME IT ON THE DIPLOMA PROGRAM, MAYBE WE COULD BLAME IT ON ACADEMIC INSECURITIES. BUT I, I BLAME IT ON TIME, ITS THIS CONSTANT FEELING THAT TIME IS RUNNING OUT, THAT IF I DON'T WORK EVERY SINGLE DAY, IM GOING TO RUN OUT OF TIME. |
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AND THAT WILL BE IT. WHAT DO I DO THEN? WHEN TIME RUNS OUT. WHAT IF I FAILED TO COMPLETE SOMETHING? WHAT IF I MISSED A PAGE ON MY MATH HOMEWORK AND THATS WHAT WILL ULTIMATELY LEAD ME TO GETTING A SUCCESSFUL GRADE ON MY TEST? RACE. RACE. RACE AGAINST TIME. |
IT TRULY IS A NEVER ENDING BATTLE BETWEEN THE CLOCK AND ME. |
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WE HAD OUR PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES THE OTHER DAY, AND I WAS TOLD THAT I'M "BURNING MYSELF OUT", OR IN OTHER WORDS, I SPEND TOO MUCH TIME. I SEE WHERE THIS IS COMING FROM, LITERALLY I CAN SEE MYSELF BURNING OUT, MY HAIR IS FALLING OUT OF MY HEAD. |
TIMS IS SOMETHING THAT I TAKE VERY SERIOUSLY, BECAUSE I'M AFRAID THAT I HAVE TOO LITTLE OF IT. HAVING ONE DAY OF DOING NOTHING, MEANS THE CLOCK HAD MOVED ITS LONG HAND JUST A LITTLE CLOSER TO THE END. |
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WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY HERE IS THAT AS WE GET OLDER, TIME BECOMES MORE VALUABLE, IN OUR WORK, IN OUR SCHOOL LIVES OR OUR WORKING LIVES. BUT TIME SEEMS TO MOVE OH SO QUICKLY, SOMETIMES I WISH I COULD SOMEHOW TEMPORARILY STOP THE HANDS FROM MOVING SO I COULD TAKE A MOMENT TO BREATHE. |
*TAKE A BREATH* |
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TIME IS THE BANE OF OUR EXISTENCE. ITS A STRUGGLE BECAUSE TIME IS THIS NEVER ENGING TICKING CLOCK THAT MEASURES THE MOMENTS IN OUR LIFE AND ALL THE THINGS WE DO. WE EITHER SPEND ALL OF OUR TIME FOLLOWING THE RULES SET OUT BY OUR CIVILISATION, OR WE LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST. |
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, REALLY THINK ABOUT IT, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US HAS OUR LIFE STRUCTURE AND IT HAS BEEN SET OUT FOR US FROM THE DAY WE WERE BRON. WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH TIME? |
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OUR LIVES OUR PLANNED TO THE SECOND, A PLAN SET OUT FOR US BY SOCIETY. AND EACH AND EVERY SECOND COUNTS, YOU MISS ON SECOND, THE WHOLE PLAN IS SET BACK JUST A LITTLE BIT. ITS THIS CONSTANT RUSH THROUGH LIFE TO TRY AND MAKE IT TO WHAT? |
WE'RE RUNNING IN CIRCLES AND WHAT'S THE CIRCLE..? A CLOCK. |
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LIFE AND TIME IS LIKE A GAME, THAT YOU GO TO PLAY IN AN ARCADE. YOU PUT A COIN IN AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS. YOU CAN SPEND ALL OF YOUR TWO MINUTES FOLLOWING ALL THE RULES OR JUST DO WHAT YOU WANT. WHEN THE TIME ENDS, YOU WOULD HAVE EITHER FOLLOWED ALL THE RULES OR HAVE GONE AND DONE YOUR OWN THING. |
HOWEVER, AT THE END OF YOUR TIME YOU ARE GIVEN YOUR SOCRE FOR THE EXTENT OF YOUR SUCCESS. |
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DID YOU DO WELL? |
DID YOU MANAGE TO DO EVERYTHING IN THOSE SHORT MINUETS THAT WERE GIVEN TO YOU? |
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THE SOLUTION? CAN WE WRITE A SCIENTIFIC EQUATION? A FORMULA THAT ALLOWS US TO FIND THE ANSWER? TO SOLVE THE QUESTION THAT IS TIME. |
HOW DO WE FIND TIME OURSELVES. HOW DO WE FIND TIME TO BREATHE. HOW DO WE FIND TIME. |
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I HAVE ASKED MY QUESTIONS, AND HAVE GIVEN VERY FEW ANSWERS. HOWEVER, THE LAST QUESTION I LEAVE WITH YOU TODAY IS.. HOW DO WE TEMPORARILY STOP AND NOT FEEL BAD ABOUT THE PLAN BEING SET BACK BY EVERY MISSED SECOND. |
STOP. RIGHT NOW. TAKE A MOMENT. AND BREATHE, BECAUSE WHO KNOWS WHEN YOU'LL HAVE THREE SECONDS TO JUST BREATH. |
