Embracing Time Against Anxiety

The internal work is learning to zoom in on the coastline. To try to remember that our time approaches infinity depending on how we slice it, and we need only focus fully on the present moment while creating anchors for our future selves to build ourselves an abundance of time.

Our struggle between anxiety and time is both internal and external. The external involves finding ways to reduce or eliminate the forces which drag us through time. Forces that turn the joy of using our infinite time in the present into a brutal quest for time dominance.

Breaking time into chunks allows us to treat it like a resource and optimize our use of it. And once it becomes a resource we can use, it because a resource we can misuse, and therein lies the anxiety. But embedded in our habit of time atomization is the assumption that time is finite, scarce, and needs to be conserved. If time weren't scarce, ther... See more