Own It

Off the job you feel as though you own time, instead of the other way around. While off the clock you stop waiting for time, you make time. You make time to go for a run, visit a friend, write, read, sleep, explore, learn. On the clock you are waiting for time. You are waiting for artificial markers of time that are not your own. They are someone else's idea of what you should be doing with your life. A half an hour until lunch, one hour until the meeting, 5 hours until I can leave this place, 2 days until the weekend, 2 days until I have to go back. You are doing time.

Now, while I am off the clock, I often don't know what time it is, and I really don't care. Time doesn't matter. Consequently, I seem to languish in a wonderfully slow lazy river of self prescribed adventures. I own time.