Time is on our side...

"Time is a gift" is a positive outlook on life, by saying we are given the time to find joy in life through work, leisure and passions. Not all are given this time obviously. Some people don't live long enough to truly live life, while others are suppressed from living it. The fact that time is not changing is a gift as well. For instance although season vary, they are still somewhat constant and do follow a pattern. These patterns lay the groundwork for our ways of calculating time from woodhenge, to calenders, to hours and minutes. Although there are flaws in our ways of observing these patterns, they themselves are perfect. "Time is money" is a completely different concept than "time is a gift." It refers to the mentality that in the time we choose to delay we could be efficiently working. That is a more positive way of looking at the saying, while realistically it has unfortunately evolved as the slogan for 'workaholics' and the greedy. With the "time is money" mentality we see and hear everywhere, many have undeniably began to accept it, and thus our culture has become drowned in greed. The "time is money" ideal has almost evolved into "money is life." We have started to think that we need money to live and more money to be happy. The former is true but the latter is not always.