Meaningfullessnessity

Up and down, left and right, forward and reverse, sickness, health, in, out, loud, soft, young, old, nothing, everything.

Our physical existence. The struggle to identify the opposing forces of nature and exist somewhere safely in the middle until we've lost physical control of one of those forces, veering too closely to one side.



Have you ever thought about the things you devote your time to? Have you ever considered what others devote themselves to? We've all heard the phrase "Time is an investment", and that is true in a sense - that you get a result based on what you spend your time on. If you devote your youth to learning and mastering carpentry you will eventually see a return in that your craft produces results in the physical, financial, and personal fulfillment sense - an investment.

Time can be invested, yes, but time can also be spent wisely, or wasted.

If you invest money into the stock market you are not guaranteed a return. In fact, unless you really know what you are doing and carefully examine what you are putting your money into, it is likely that you will lose money. So less an investment and more a gamble.

If you buy a pallet full of Frisbees for $500 and play with one of them but burn the others you have thrown away your money, right?

I tend to think of time time in the same way. If your time is "invested" in Fantasy Football you will likely spend 3 or more hours a week managing your team. With 75,000,000 Americans playing Fantasy Football in 2015 that works out to 225,000,000 human hours (a low ball estimate) per week. That's an equivalent to 25,684 years of human life, 321 eighty year lifetimes PER WEEK devoted to pretending to have a football team.

A few of those people will make money from playing, but not all. And it will not be substantial earnings, so time in that scenario is treated less like an investment and more like a disposable resource, a smoke bomb on July 4th. Fun to look at for a minute or two, but then it's gone and nothing will have been returned.

I started writing this as another New Word post: Meaningfullessnessity being the necessity of both the meaningful and the meaningless things. The human need for personal fulfillment vs. the need to crash on the couch and watch sitcoms or a sports game. I'll let you ponder on that yourself since reading this is actually a mix of both. You don't have to read this, but you are. It's a distraction, just like fantasy football, and that's fine... Take inventory, and make sure you are burning your fuse on a purposeful existence. Do this and you will find yourself caring less about your team's standings.