My name is Agata. I’m a sociologist from Poland, interested in what is happening around technology when you take into consideration social perspective. I heard about you from my boyfriend who has been participating in BitShares community and now is fascinated by steemit idea.
What I’m currently interested in is the idea of understanding the time, especially definition of ‘wasting the time’. But why am I telling you about that? Because idea of ‘wasting the time’ seems to me important for human’s life.
Few days ago, I took part in presentation about differences between X, Y and Z generations. What I discovered there is that fear of wasting the time may not affect all generations equally , but it can be especially strong for Y generation (people born between 1980 and 1995).
In Poland those people (including me) were raised in new, overheated capitalism of the ’90s, promising quick carriers and unlimited opportunities. We were raised to have great ambitions but we didn’t really know how to define our scopes and grab opportunities. Thus, we learn as many languages as possible, study as many faculties as possible and get as many experiences as possible to enlarge our chance to success. We want to do everything so we don’t have time to waste. We are scared to death of wasting our time. Do you have that too?
Ok, but what about that? It is normal that people want to develop their skills, learn new things, be better and better. Yes, I think that’s normal and that’s good that we have that need. But if we let the fear of wasting the time take control over our life, it makes us numb - it takes away courage of doing risky things, of doing new, unpredictable things, of doing things that can fail. It makes us numb because it takes away pleasure of spending time ‘unproductively’ with our family and friends.
Fear of wasting the time actually takes our time away, so readiness to waste time can be a good thing – both for our carrier decisions and for our private life. In my opinion it is also very important for such new and unpredictable initiatives as steemit so… let’s be ready to ‘waste’ some time.