Sunday, November 15, 2009

The value of 2 hours a day....

I got this calculation when I was a student. Then I did a partime job for 2 hrs daily, cash registering in a convenient store in Japan.That 2 hrs daily's wage end up more than a thousand ringgit a month and more than 10 thousand ringgit that year, that was in 1994!

I am not going to write about money this time, but about something worth more than money, thing that money cant buy. I am talking about "time". What 2 hours a day can be over a life time?

Imagine if we watch TV for 2 hours a day, how big can the time snow ball into during a life time? Lets see, 2 hrs x 30 days = 60hrs/month. Equivalent 2.5 days/month, multiply with 12 months = 30days. That means if you watch 2 hours of TV everyday, annually you are watching a solid 30 days/month!!! So annually you are only living for 11 months! Say you start watching TV when you are 4 years old and your dead at 64, means you live watching TV for 2 hours a day for 60 years. So just now for every year, you lose 1 month, so for every 60 years, you will lose 60 months = 5 years.
So conclusion is, if you watch TV for 2 hours a day for 60 years, you are spending 5 solid years watching TV! What do you think?

The issue is not just about TV but more of wasting little time, so to speak, but in a life time, you will see the snow ball is so damn huge! If we can sleep 2 hours shorter (8-6), if we can travel 2 hours/daily faster or perhaps we can eliminate travelling time, or
if we can eliminate waiting time, just 2 hours a day, then perhaps we can live our life longer by 5 years!

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