Comments on: Time is Better Spent “Earning” Happiness rather than Additional Money https://anitamathias.com/2012/06/29/time-is-better-spent-earning-happiness-rather-than-additional-money/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 14 Nov 2013 01:07:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/06/29/time-is-better-spent-earning-happiness-rather-than-additional-money/#comment-17893 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:54:26 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/06/29/time-is-better-spent-earning-happiness-rather-than-additional-money/#comment-17893 Absolutely, Greenpatches and Miss Mollie!! It is a mysterious why we are time-starved in the West, as we are living in the most affluent society in the history of mankind, and have so many labour-saving devices. Is it greed? Is hurry an addiction, an addiction caused by the adrenalin it generates?

Harriet, that's great about cutting your working hours. You will so enjoy the extra leisure. Of course, new things will come to fill it so you will sometimes feel busy–but hopefully, not as much as before.

Roy retired early, and we do enjoy the additional time, and reduced stress. Sometimes, of course, irrationally, we feel busy–that's what adrenalin does to us, and then have to rationally tell ourselves that we are not really busy: It's our old rushed selves speaking.

Molly, using the same themes is not copying at all. So many of my blog posts bounce off other people's posts and preoccupations!

]]> By: Harriet https://anitamathias.com/2012/06/29/time-is-better-spent-earning-happiness-rather-than-additional-money/#comment-17892 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:09:10 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/06/29/time-is-better-spent-earning-happiness-rather-than-additional-money/#comment-17892 Yet again your timing is so reassuring for me! Your list for ensuring happiness could be my list. I have finally cut my working hours for next term – and had a wonderful sense of release. If only I had the courage to move on altogether. Thanks for another thought provoking blog.

]]> By: Miss Mollie https://anitamathias.com/2012/06/29/time-is-better-spent-earning-happiness-rather-than-additional-money/#comment-17891 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:06:06 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/06/29/time-is-better-spent-earning-happiness-rather-than-additional-money/#comment-17891 I really wasn't copying in my post today. It went with my summer stories theme, I had been thinking of it for awhile. I think they complement each other. I'll throw a link to you again.

]]> By: Greenpatches https://anitamathias.com/2012/06/29/time-is-better-spent-earning-happiness-rather-than-additional-money/#comment-17890 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 08:44:30 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/06/29/time-is-better-spent-earning-happiness-rather-than-additional-money/#comment-17890 He certainly did! A wise decision. I worry sometimes about just how time-starved a society we seem to be becoming. To have time, and to be aware enough to use it wisely, as you're realising, is a true gift. Hope I don't sound preachy here; I'm thinking the issue through as I write!

]]> By: Miss Mollie https://anitamathias.com/2012/06/29/time-is-better-spent-earning-happiness-rather-than-additional-money/#comment-17889 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:41:12 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/06/29/time-is-better-spent-earning-happiness-rather-than-additional-money/#comment-17889 Upside down living. I think Jesus taught about that. (smile)

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