DVRG MAGAZINE

If you’re looking for a light reading, no stories told, one you can open and randomly land on a page without having to read the previous pages, you may be interested in this one. I do judge a book by its cover, especially when the books in my current want-to-read list are not available in the bookstore, I scan and grab those that catch my attention, and read the back cover. And this one, it really caught mine. It’s a book about time.

 

Here are a couple of statements on the back of the book: 

“Yet there’s no time like the present. We want to do more in less time, but wish we could slow the clock”

 

The book basically gives you information about the average time to do things and how long things last and why. A compelling way to display a set of statistical survey for a wide range of things. Here are some interesting questions you can find the answer in the book:

1. How long does it take for your body to grow an inch of hair?

2. How many years did it take to build the Taj Mahal?

3. When should you replace your beauty products?

4. How long did the shortest war on record last?

5. How long does love last?

 

This book may provoke you to experiment the actual time in doing some things. Or maybe influence you to replace your eyeliner even though you can still use it. Or urge you to measure your unproductive time in the office. 

 

The concept of time is somewhat always interesting to talk about. How we always want to do things faster, always want to do so much in a period of time, or sometimes we run out of idea how to spend our time that we just do something impulsively. Sometimes you want things to last longer, yet sometimes you want it go faster. Or at some point you just want to freeze time because things are going to change when it goes by. 

 

While we are busy doing our work, our hair is growing, the food we just eat is being digested by our body, a war is happening in other parts of the world, a couple is fighting over something somewhere… there are just so many things that could happen within seconds, minutes, hours, and so on.

 

The saying “timing is everything” has always felt right for me. Time is limited, but what you can do is infinite. 

 

Spend your time wisely.