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Why Is Time So Important?

In These Days Many People Are So Locked Up To Time That They Can’t Do Anything Without Knowing What Time It Is! Why Has It Become Like This? And Is It Good To Always Know And Follow The Clock?

During The Last Decades Time Has Become More And More Important, And It Has Started To Decide All The Things We Do. If We Are Going To Do Something, We Have To Decide Date, Time And Place And Before That Control That We Aren’t Doing Anything Else. This Can Seem Like A Natural Way Of Deciding What I’m Going To Do, Because I Can’t Promise To Do Something If I Already Am Booked To Do Something Else During The Same Time. If This Society Is Going To Work Out Everyone Has To Follow The Time And Get To The Place Were They Are Supposed To Be, When They Are Supposed To Be There. If I Were A Dentist And Overslept One Morning, All My Patients That Had Booked A Time Would Be Angry. Because They Had Booked This Time, To Fit In Their Schedule And Because Of Me They Aren’t Able To Get To Work In Time As They Had Planned. And At Work They Were Supposed To Meet An Important Person. In A Time Where Everyone Is Using The Time And Following It, Even A Little Lateness Can Result In A Big Mess.

How Time Became So Important.

In The Old Days Time Was Important, But Not As It Is Today! There Wasn’t The Same Time In The Whole Country But When The Railway Came It Became Necessary To Have The Same Time Everywhere In The Country. A Railway Timetable Need The Same Time, Or Else You Can’t Know What Time It Means (On The Railway Timetable). Then The Government Decided What Time Sweden Was Supposed To Have. My Grandmother Has Told Me That Everyone In The Village Had There Own Time. The Most Common Change Was That The Clock Was Set Back One Hour. She Also Told Me That Some People In The Village Had Their Time Set Like The Government And They Thought They Were A Little Bit Weird. But Even More Weird Were The People That Only Had Set Back The Time Thirty Minutes! But When She Got Married To Grandfather He S?? ??A ?Whytopped It Because He Didn’t Understand The Meaning Of It. And After That The Time Got More And More Important, In School And At Work And You Even Started To Book Time When To Visit Friends.

Is It Good, Bad Or Necessary Follow The Time?

I Have Thought A Lot About This Question And Found Out That The Only Answer Has To Be A Combination Of These Three! If I Start With The Reason Why It’s Necessary. It’s Because Society, The Doctor, The Dentist And The Infrastructure Wouldn’t Work If We Didn’t Follow The Time. And In The Same Time It’s Also Good Because We Need The Doctor And All Other Things That Are Depending On What Time It Is. But This Leads Directly To The Bad Thing About This! If You Have A Tight Schedule With A Lot Of Things To Do, You Get Stressed And Don’t Feel So Well. And That’s A Big Problem! I Think That Everyone Need To Learn How To Not Book So Many Things In Their Schedule, And Take More Breaks Just To Sit Still And Listen To The Birds.

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