No More Hours in a Day: Only 24!

The best thing we should do
for a happy life
Is to learn something new,
confronting daily strife.

It seems like time has been chasing its own continued progress of irreversible existence, and it is often very hard for us to cope with this speed limit. We must learn to gently pursue it, at least to get a grip on its real value. It is a total waste of time to spend days submerged in depression or sadness. No one is going to care. In this self-centered world, no one likes to willingly waste their time to know or figure out if you are sad or not. You are your own world
with your sadness.
Sooner or later we all will reach the end of our life’s journey because we never can attain immortality. There is no purpose of living this one-time-opportunity of a life in a negative or regretful way. Every one of us has our own miseries and troubles, but it is all inside our head how we must deal with such things.
The choice is ours. I feel fortunate to be able to choose between
two options inside my mind—
a) I stay sad because this world is full of dark things. b) I remain happy, overcoming sadness by conquering the dark.
Of course, I choose option “b.”
We must remember that in a single day, we have no more than 24 hours, 1440 minutes, or 86400 seconds of time. From these 86400, we need to count every second to notice how precious time really is when we don’t seem to care for our life’s most valuable moments.
According to The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, “People who live to the age of 80 have been sound asleep for 26 years of their lifespan.” I think spending time sleeping is way better than hours of insomnia in anxiety. But of course, sleeping is no solution to getting rid of our negative state of mind. We need to learn to utilize each day by doing fruitful things that make us feel happy.

A survey on 3000 British adults found, during their adult years, a typical Brit will cry 315 times. New research also reveals that during our lifetime, we might spend an average of eight months laughing and 30 hours crying. I learn to gather my hours and try to stay positive as much as I can, thinking, “No, I am not going to shed tears for 30 hours, even if I live to be a hundred in a third world country. I would rather increase 8 months to 24 months of
laughter.

In 2016, a global survey on more than 9000 people shows that we spend less than 0.5 percent of our lifetime having sex. That is only 117 days out of the average 29,000 days that make up an entire lifetime. This report indicates that we are becoming like robots in this civilized world where love and emotions play a very minor role. In the 24 hours of a day, we need to spend more time with our loved ones, rather than spending an average of 92120 hours working in a lifetime.

We have to learn to add more valuable happy moments in our daily life. For instance, Canadian health experts have revealed that people spend seven years of their lives staying awake in bed at night, waiting to fall asleep. Our will and wish depends how we mend this problem. We must change our bad habits to solve things. We need to learn to go to bed early in the night cutting out caffeine, cigarettes, alcohol, negative thoughts, depression, PC, cell phones, and television. We can get tired from expanding energy by physical work during daytime. If we get to sleep before midnight for 30 days straight, it will help us to form a routine. Also, we can imagine calming and soothing things while in bed to relax our mind to aid us in falling asleep. I am giving you this simple example to show you that there are so many ways to solve our own little problems only through motivation of our own willingness.

Men spend four months or about 3000 hours of their lives shaving, as per Reader’s Digest survey. Shaving is essential I know, but if a man can spend 3000 hours in his life only shaving, why can’t we spend more wonderful time with our parents, children, and family? Checking our phones every six and a half minutes (according to a study by Nokia) to make 150 times in 16 waking, hours may give us a temporary contentment of mind, but it does not add any value to our life’s precious moments. Spending 6.3 hours a week playing video games, or men spending around 11 months in a lifetime (43 minutes a day) ogling the opposite sex will neither bring any good to the world nor any hope for an individual. We should learn to take a hint of awareness from the alarming study report that “a child born in 2013 will have spent an entire year of his/her life in front of a screen by the time he/she turns seven.” The British Parking Association’s report of spending “248 days searching for a parking place” is undoubtedly disconcerting as well, and which should make us aware.

Moments are extremely valuable. In other words, our priceless time is too expensive to waste. Proper use of each nanosecond can make our life worth living. We should be useful to this helpless world we live in and for that we need to stay happy and content in heart. I am not going to instruct you on how we can spend each moment in a worthwhile way. Everybody knows how or when to do good things, we just need to be inspired to do it. Even by learning good things from everything around us, we can utilize our time in a fruitful positive way.
We should learn to savor some moments to let time feel worth existing.

Author: Munia Khan

Author of- “Beyond The Vernal Mind” (published 6th September, 2012) Publisher : Xlibris Corporation, USA “To Evince The Blue” (published 29th October, 2014) Publisher : Xlibris Corporation, USA “Versified” (published 23rd October, 2016) Publisher: Tiktakti Publishing Company, Tel Aviv, ISRAEL “Attainable” (Published 2nd June, 2020) Publisher: Authors Place Press, CO, USA. “Fireclay” (Published 3rd March, 2020) Rushmore Press LLC, Rainbow Boulevard, Las Vegas, USA “The Half Circle” (Published July 15, 2020) Rushmore Press LLC, Rainbow Boulevard, Las Vegas, USA "Art-Alive" (Forthcoming publication 2025) Xlibris Corporation, USA