The Cost of Time

When you purchase tickets to see a theatre show, a comedy standup or a concert, you are very mindful of your experience of the time spent in the duration of that show. You want to savor every single minute with that comedian, that artist, that theatre group.

It is the same with life.  I mean, I didn’t just move overseas and go through all the motions and issues of being overseas just to be miserable in a room somewhere in front of the laptop.  I want to have a life well spent, and that makes making difficult decisions on how I spend my time.

And right now, the amount of time I spend in front of a computer screen in a room somewhere is worrying.  Why go through the challenges of moving overseas, to Dublin or Berlin out of all places, just to live out my hours in front of a screen?  The weather is getting better outside, the people are out having fun, there is the countryside yet to explore…and yet, there I was, just living in front of a screen.

How do people do this? And by people, I mean that ones in their 50s, 60s, and so on.  The office workers.  The cubicle workers.  The remote workers.  I wonder if they ever regret their decisions.