I really wish I had more time to do x

Today, I am contemplating what it means when we say things like "I wish I had more time to do x." I have concluded that we usually mean we wish we could alter the laws of the universe, continue to do exactly what we are already doing, but somehow also at the same time have extra time that no one else has, and also time that does not cost us anything else that we are already choosing to spend it on. We also do not want to have to use sleep to fuel any of this extra time. Yes?

What it doesn't seem to mean is that we want to look closely at our lives and the use of our time already in place. We don't want to give up the things that we are already doing and that matter to us, nor do we want to give up the rest time that we are expending on important rest activities. We don't want to give other people our time, either, because it is too precious. Sometimes we don't even want to go through all the boring moments of time passing doing the thing we want to do.

We want to be able to do something like playing an instrument or speaking a language or writing a book, but we don't really want to. Because if we REALLY wanted to, we would already be doing it. Yes?
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Published on May 20, 2014 16:03
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