Recommendation: Read this while listening to the song Smile by FRND starting at 2:50.

Is it just me, or are we really obsessed with time. Like fully engrossed in our clocks on our phones and laptops.

Every day, our lives are guided by three or four numbers with a colon in between. We get up at a certain time, go to bed at a certain time. Go to class, work, an appointment, whatever.

Numbers carry such a huge importance in all humans lives too. We’re represented by a social security number, we’re the 52nd person in line to order our lunch meat, we’re guided by our bank number, account number, check number.

Again, I don’t know if it’s just me but sometimes these numbers begin to become a bit overwhelming. It’s terrifying to think each human could just be a barcode, a series of numbers.

The human barcode, what a concept.

I wish my life wasn’t so predetermined, so directed by numbers.

I guess my point of this stream of consciousness is to take a second and breathe. You are more than a number. More than a time you can’t seem to get up for.

It’s so essential to live in the now every once and a while, forget about your responsibilities, forget what time it is, and just live, and breathe.

The importance of the present, the power of the now, I once read once you truly understand the concept of time your worries, anxiety, and unhappiness will decrease immensely. The author brought up a quite intriguing point, see time is just an illusion. It's a construct made up by people who wanted something to measure a moment.

Forget about living in the past, the future, whatever. Forget about trying to measure that moment, because I strongly believe besides our socially constructed measurement of a second, no one can truly begin to explain the feeling of being conscious of a moment in time. So live in the present moment.

Every person reading this is probably scoffing, maybe rolling their eyes if I’ve really gotten my point across. But for real, think about it I don’t want to just be a number, just to be dictated by a time.

Call me cliche, call me whatever your heart desires, but living in the now is really important to the human existence, and frankly, my happiness.

Okay, that is all.

Go on living your lives, obsessed with time or not.