Perhaps, instead of filling time, we can inspect whether what we fill it with creates a sense of fulfillment. It’s not that we don’t have enough hours in the day for what’s on our to-do list—although that can certainly be the case, of course—but rather we don’t inspect what’s on the to-do list often enough, or question what goes on it in the first place. If “time is how you spend your love,” as Zadie Smith wrote in On Beauty, then perhaps it’s worth asking how we can manage our love rather than our time.
