I was driving home the other night, and I noticed how great it is to drive at night. The roads are empty, the stoplights are short (and more likely to be green), and the cops are fewer.
And I started to think: what if you could take all of the cars that travel one stretch of road, and average them out over the course of the entire day? Instead of having two hours of crazy traffic every day, you had 24 hours of steady even traffic. By that standard, even the busiest roads would still be under their capacity.
Of course this scenario isn’t feasible, but it’s an interesting thought.
I think our lives are the same way as traffic. Every day we have several hours of extreme busyness–busyness to the point of not really getting much done, just like we sit in traffic every morning and evening. And our capacity is woefully underused.
We have the capacity to do so much, but because of poor time management and bad lifestyle choices, we waste so much time. Instead of doing something productive, I can find myself on my couch for several hours in a night. And what do I do when I’m sitting on the couch? Well, I watch some sitcom of course.
By its nature Watching television isn’t bad, but if you spend too much time watching tv, you are wasting your natural capacity.