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This post started as philosophical and has taken a hard left turn onto a rather different street. A few thoughts to bring it back...
Time keeping, to me currently, is interesting as it affords the ability to fit and package everything I care to experience into given movements of the day. If I keep time, I have more time to invest in a variety of experiences, encounters and moments. If I record time spent, I then get to examine if I am investing a proportionate amount of time in the moments I care about the most, and rebalance as necessary.
This is all only currently true for me as I live on "mechanical time." I exist on a schedule aligned with others on which the greatest benefit to society and organizations can be gained. There are times of day designated for eating and for sleeping. Within this structure, we optimize for survival.
There is, however, another frame: "body time." Body time is to follow the pace and flow of what one's body and senses need in any given moment. There are no designated hours for sleeping or for eating. There is only "is the body tired now?" or "is the body hungry?" Body time is arguably the more natural of the two sets and is rarely encountered by those that operate on mechanical time save for glimpses on vacation or those that exist in particular societies.
Which form of time sounds more interesting to you and how can we adapt the two notions of time to perhaps strike a more interesting balance?
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