How to Have a Timeless Day: Getting Rid of Time

The Western World, which is spreading its superficial notions of success and happiness based money and consumption, across the globe, is contingent upon time. The age old phrase time is money only hinders the human experience so long as time exists and so long as a person values money above life. As Marx places it, squarely on the nose of those who perpetuate the unreasonable, "We should not say that one man's/persons hour is worth another man's/person's hour, but rather that one man/person during an hour is worth just as much as another man/person during an hour. Time is everything, man/a person is nothing: he is [they are] at the most time's carcass." - Brainy Quote 

To get rid of time is to get rid of the superficial and live. If time doesn't exist, one opens up the door to living. This is not to suggest that I am some irrational radical. I am aware that one must work on schedule to maintain an income for buying necessities to sustain one's primordial needs. However, schedules and work, in some domains do a good job of destroying the intellectual needs that make the human unique in the animal kingdom. There is  a concept  in psychology that refers to a primordial experience before the development of the working clock. That of being in psychological flow.

In the discussions of psychological flow, there seems to be an emphasis on the presence of time and the ability to balance time with enjoyment and focus. It is my own position that the article on flow above serves to perpetuate the miserableness most people experience serving capitalistic ideals. Primarily the nine to five working job or part time jobs that only serve to take care of basic expenses. Money specific jobs that serve only the purpose to turn a dollar. One quote I firmly disagree with is, "Yet we can't blame family, society, or history if our work is meaningless, dull, or stressful." (psychological flow. )Yes, history and the construction of society are directly to blame for meaningless work, dull work, and stressful work. In terms of family, this style of living which emphasizes work and money takes us away from our families and family life then gets manipulated to serve the underlying motives of turning profits. 

The article, and discourse surrounding flow is too kind to time. If it is "the full involvement of flow, rather than happiness, that makes for excellence in life," why emphasize time? If the complete loss of time is a characteristic of flow, and schedules interrupt that flow, even when experiencing it in the work place where goals are emphasized, one can never really be in a place where long periods of excellence and happiness are experienced. Unless one removes time.

In order to achieve longer periods of psychological flow, I have made an effort to remove time. It is quite easy. Especially on the weekends or on days when I don't work. Or on holidays and breaks. I shut off all clocks, I shut my cell phone off, I don't set schedules with friends and plan times to meet, I simply get rid of time. The strangest thing happens, I get things done. Instead of listening to the clock, I listen to my body. I wake up from a nap and I eat when I am hungry. I don't say, I will eat for a half an hour, I will spend twenty minutes on this project and move to the next. I work on the project until I loose energy, until my body says you need a short rest. I don't know how long my rests are, or my breaks are, or how long I worked on my homework or the laundry. I just do what needs to be done and all of a sudden, before the sun sets, or rises, I have things done. It's magic, turn off the clocks. Right click on the computers bottom tab, click properties, and hide the clock. Avoid IM's that show the time when you type.You will no longer feel bad for napping too long or too short or eating an hour late or an hour early. You just do as your body tells you. Not as the clock dictates. Tick, Tock. Tick, Tock.
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