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Sometimes stopping and smelling the roses seems like it’s not option for most of us. We’re all busy, with kids, pets, work, our spouse, our parents, our grandparents or just life in general. Some of us are just bad at time management, period. Yet, despite all of our crazy lives, stopping and smelling the roses is just damn right important. Taking a minute or two to stop, take in, and enjoy all…

Sometimes stopping and smelling the roses seems like it’s not option for most of us. We’re all busy, with kids, pets, work, our spouse, our parents, our grandparents or just life in general. Some of us are just bad at time management, period. Yet, despite all of our crazy lives, stopping and smelling the roses is just damn right important. Taking a minute or two to stop, take in, and enjoy all…

Me - You know its annoying. 

Also Me - What is? What do you have to whine about now?

Me - This whole time thing.

Also Me - What now you think time is annoying? Man, how much can you really crib, seriously. Keep going now, I wanna see where it goes. 

Me - Fuck you!

Also Me - No seriously, I wanna see how you can crib about time itself. Go on.

Me - First of all, I am not cribbing. Second of all...

Also Me - Are there more than two points?

Me - I don’t know. No.

Also Me - Then why do have to say ‘second of all’. Just say it.

Me - If only you will let me. I am not cribbing and specially not about time. I am annoyed at the way people use time as an excuse.

Also Me - Did that rhyme?

Me - I mean, I call up my sister to ask her opinion about something and she doesn’t have time to talk. 

Also Me - Doesn’t she work from home?

Me - Yeah

Also Me - And has two kids? Both under the age of 5?

Me - Yeah

Also Me - And she takes care of them, cooks food, does her job, and is really good at it too?

Me - Yeah.

Also Me - Can you not sense how I am mocking your desperation for attention? Dude she doesn’t have time to sleep, she sleeps while she poops. Are you seriously asking a young millennial working parent for time to discuss the bullshit that comes out of your ungrateful, lazy mouth?

Me - Yeah. Why not? She is my sister and its just an excuse.

Also Me - It is and its valid.

Me - No its not. You’re not getting it. Look, I know she doesn’t have time to talk about bullshit for hours, but she doesn’t have time for anything. Its not like she is working literally 24x7, she has time, but she doesn’t have the mental space for anything else. 

Also Me - How can she? She has so much going on. And its not like she is doing it on purpose, she has to.

Me - My point exactly. She has to. Lately everybody ‘has to’ do stuff. They have to be busy all the fucking time. They don’t have time for chats, they don’t have time to hang out, they don’t have time to connect with old buddies, they don’t have time to watch films and discuss them afterwards. And like you said they don’t have time to sleep. So what do they do? And why do they do it? What is the point of all of this?

Also Me - Survival? Sustenance? People need to earn, maintain their and their kids’ social status at par with their peers. Its what life is, isn’t it?

Me - Is it?

Also Me - That’s what I asked.

Me - And I am asking you back, is it? Is this what life is, just doing stuff endlessly till you reach a point where you have to do it? I don’t remember our parents being this fussy about life. They had plenty of time to go on vacations, meet their relatives regularly or just sit in the balcony peacefully, sipping tea. Do you see anyone doing that now? Everybody is just so worried about time. Nobody has the fucking time.

Also Me - Back to fucking time then.

Me - Yes. And its not like days have gotten shorter. We are even sleeping less, then where is this extra time going?

Also Me - People do what they want to do. Why can’t you accept the fact that may be you are not everyone’s priority? You said yourself, that nobody has the fucking time. So whatever little time they have away from work, they spend things they like doing, like, watching TV, catching up on a book, social media. May be they are just busier than you are. Look at the competition out there. Look at the population of this country. What can they do? They have to keep working to get ahead.

Me - Get ahead to do what?

Also Me - To get more power, greater social acceptance, to earn more money.

Me - Money! That’s what we are all about now. Fucking money!

Also Me - Oh! So we are fucking money too.

Me - Absolutely! But more than money, its this uncontrollable urge to be involved in something, to always keep doing something ‘meaningful’, something ‘materialistic’, something that adds to your resume, something that makes you a ‘better’ person. Nobody cares about being a happy person anymore.

Also Me - They are trying.

Me - Yes, they are ‘trying’ to be happy. You know if you are trying to be happy, you are not.

Also Me - Okay...So what do you suggest ‘Rant Almighty’, what should we do to stay happy.

Me - I don’t know. Try less may be. Take some time out. Do things not because you have to, but because you want to or because you can. Be mentally free of this burden of always doing something. Get out of this fucking race.

Also Me - And the most important thing?