“It is not that we have a short time to live,
but that we waste a lot of it.”
— Seneca
Over 2,000 years and it is still true. We do not seem to be getting better at things, things where we need to learn them for ourselves.
How do you get a seat at the coliseum? 50,000 people could watch a gladiator game or whatever they put on yet there were 1,000,000 people in the city. They had to do something. And this is something where the emperor paid for it all. How did they bring order to it so people could get in?
They had tickets. Wood, clay, but here is the magic part – to my mind your ticket was marked with a gate number, a row, and a seat. That is just like what is used for modern tickets. These Romans sure had a lot of things figured out.
If only we could figure out a way to transmit how they, or at least some of them, knew how to not waste time.
I am certainly among the group of people who waste time. Lots of it. All I seem to have learned is to not complain about life being too short.
Though that could be because I have escaped death at least three times, so far. So I have gifts in abundance of life.
Now if I would just quit wasting it.
Came oh so close to not doing a typed page today. So very close. But I woke up with an idea and I started in on it and, aside from going to the dentist and coming home with a numb mouth, it seems like I have it complete. Too bad it has no worth to anyone except me and a couple of friends who I told about it.
Maybe I should just roast more coffee. We enjoy that.
MichaelRpdx :: rkmm 2021-12-03