WAYS OF CONSIDERING TIME (III)
Time
as a referee
When a person consdiers time
as the referee, this simply means that he is considering time as a
judge.
In this case, the MBR points
out the following cases:
Adquire
the means of absolute cronological precision.
Some people
invest a lot of money in good quality time pieces, others furnish their
houses or offices with a great variety of clocks and others rely on
radios to tell them the time. These different styles mean that the
person is in sinc with the referee.
Lie
and conceal.
Even when the referee has awarded you time,
it doesn't mean that you accept his decisions. It is for this reason
that people use phrases like "I'm going to escape for a break", "I'm
going to steal a moment to..." to indicate that: a) they know they are
contravening the orders and they shouldn't be doing what they are
doing; b) they want to do it and they will do it; c) they accept the
blame for the violation they have commited, but they hope to get out of
the punishment that they deserve.
Desire
to please the external authority.
Psychologically
the clock represents their father, teacher or boss. Note that people in
such a psychological state don't look at the clock to have neutral
information; they look at the time and smile, worry or get annoyed with
the implied message that the instrument sends us.
Give
in to the temptation of periodic changes in normal activities.
People
that see time as a referee sometimes feel the need to escape. This
explains the unconnected behaviour of a conscientious and highly
disciplined person. On their days off they like to climb mountains or
they let their beards grow. Sometimes a responsible employee, without
any type of illness, calls in sick after having completed a stressfull
day the day before.
The MBR also warns that "Internal rythms are varied
and constantly changing. People that are determined to adapt their
behaviour according to time eventually discover that they don't develop
their potential with their own detriment or in their job".
Time
as a natural force
The MBR claims that: time is
like a natural resource that we are awarded when we are born. In a way
it is like air, a means of sustenance; and like our fingers and hands,
we can let our imagination use it how every it wants. The minutes and
the hours, even the weeks and the years, are convenient time images
that give people a common base to share and understand what happens.
Your
aim is to defeat the worry you have about the future, with the aim of
having a vision of time as a whole.
Stop
seeing time as your master, as an enemy, as a mystery, as a slave or as
a referee. The best way to use time is as a neutral factor in our lives
that flows through our lives and exists until we determine what we want
to do with it.
