Continue on time paradox.  Here’s the first paradox of time — “Your attitude toward time have a profound impact on your life and your world, yet you seldom recognize it.” p. 6  Here’s the paradox: most of us, myself included, are trapped by daily trivia things in life while failing to recognize the most important thing in our lives — TIME, the limited and irreplaceable resource in our lives.

I read this quote again in this book.  “No man ever steps into the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man,” by Heraclitus.  Yes, everything is going through constant non-stop changes.  We learned it back in our primary school and yet, we don’t seem to have this mind and mentality to be aware of and face daily changes in everything in our lives.  I am sure our attitude toward everything would be vastly different if we were aware of this constant in our lives. 

Why does the paradox of time exist?  I like this explanation – “Just as fish may be unaware of the existence of water in which they swim, most of us are unaware of the ceaseless flowing time in which we live.” p. 8  Because we take for granted this seemingly never-ending flowing time, we seldom value it and realize its importance, just as fish unaware of the life-dependent element — water.

Again, the author reinforces this point — Time is finite for all of us.  Once gone,  forever gone.  Ben Franklin said “Time is money.”  Wrong.  Time is more important than money, no amount of gold can buy back your lost time, yet we calculate how we spend money but seldom calculate how we spend time.  Not a miscalculation error but wrong object of calculation.  Another big paradox on time.