The Wheels of Time

I started this blog at the beginning of February, 2016. If I can write eight more posts by the end of this year, I’ll have written one post a week on avarage, which I think is pretty good. Not the number of posts only, but the consistency as well. I try to finish or keep up the things I’d started. But this hasn’t really been the case so far. My Russian and “baglama” (a Turkish instrument) learning experiences are two unfortunate examples. So this blog is like a new hope! And I intend to improve it. I have some ideas, but since I don’t get much feedback about the quality of the blog, I’m not sure what’s working and what’s not. Anyway, we’ll see…

 

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I’m starting to think that my life will be exactly like my day. Because I do almost the same things everyday. And since our lives are the collection of our days, and assuming no event that will change my lifestyle dramatically will happen, I’ll have done the things that I’d done today for my entire life. Scary, isn’t it? Now I have to multiply everything and decide what to do accordingly. Because watching that movie for one hour, means watching a movie for one hour for my entire life! Do I really want to spend that hour like that?

 

I don’t know when I’m going to die, it could be 5 minutes from now, but let’s assume (as economists love to do) that I’ll live to see my 80s. Then that one hour corresponds to 20.000 hours. And there’s 10.000 hours rule, you know, the time required to become really good at something. There’s of course no use at becoming an expert at something and then die. So let’s divide that 20.000 by two to give myself some time to make use of that expertise. According to this calculations, if I start spending one hour a day on something now, by my 50s, I’ll be really good at that thing! Seems like a good deal to me. At least better than being a guy who is an expert at watching movies… Though, watching movies is not necessarly a bad thing. It could actually be really beneficial. I couldn’t find a good example. Just change it with a thing that you spend your time on that is not good for you. 

 

This way of thinking makes huge tasks seem small enough to be achivable. For example, I want to be someone who has read the world classicals. Now, there are a hundred or more books that fall into that category and it just seems unachiavable between all the stuff that consumes my time. But all I have to do is to read for half an hour each day and one day I’ll be that someone.

 

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Also, I think I understand why people who have spent their lives by doing bad things won’t be given another chance when they ask for it after they die and see what awaits them. Because we’re already given thousands of chances! Each day is a lifetime. There’s hope, until we die. But if we die a bad person, then I’m afraid there’s nothing to do.