Time is tremendously important to those living in Western Society. Indeed multiple studies have shown that to drive a man truly insane you need only put him in a room with no access to know the passing of time. That room would have no clocks, no schedule, and no daylight to guide his way. In a matter of days, the sanest of men would go quite mad. Humans tend to be people of schedules, reliant on time to know what to do and when to do it.
Various societies throughout the history of man have treated time differently, and even today there is a disparity between cultures regarding the importance of time. Anyone who has ever met with anyone outside of western culture can attest that many cultures around the globe use time as a guideline more than a rule.
How many employers want men to lose their marriages over dedication to a schedule? It happens you know? How many bosses want employees to neglect their children for devotion to a deadline? How many bosses will fire a man for stopping to aid the victims of a car accident? For helping pick up an old lady's groceries fallen from a hole in the bag? Deadlines and schedules are more arbitrary than we realize. Is it more important that we take an extra minute to hear a 5 year old tell a story? Or is it more important that we make it on time for a meeting? How long does it really take to kiss the ones we love good bye? Or to look at the detail in a picture your kid drew rather than just to throw a passing nod? How many bosses would rather have an inferior produ
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