The notion of there being twenty-four hours in each day is generally accepted throughout today’s society. However, when a lethargic mindset takes hold, some people conduct themselves as if there are thirty hours in the day. Through laziness, those in thirty hour mode not only lose the day due to inaction; but also, they lose an additional six hours per day. When operating in thirty hour mode, you lose an additional day every four days. To spend a year in thirty hour mode is to lose fifteen months: you lose that whole year plus an additional three months so now you are moving backwards. You think you are standing still because of inactivity, but you fail to understand that nothing stays the same (it either gets better or gets worse). In turn, you are moving backwards without ever moving at all.
To dwell four years in thirty hour mode is to lose five years. How would it feel to be nineteen years old but you have only reached fourteen years of age in your development. You are supposed to be college or job ready but your maturity and skillset is that of a young teenager. In school, you never practiced the fleeting art of sitting down and shutting …show more content…
People you grew up with are preparing for retirement but you have yet to put any substantial drops in the bucket. You have stood by idly with your hands full of vanities, living the life of a twenty year old when you were supposed to have been punching the clock (knee deep in a professional career). Instead of immersing yourself in building a family, you were flying by the seat of your pants (young, wild and free). Rather than equipping your children with tools for success, you left their education in the hands of the streets and unscrupulous figures with ulterior motives. Instead of being ready to put the cherry on top of the ice cream sundae of your life; you are still wondering the isles of the grocery store, looking for that perfect flavor of ice