But time, I have come to realize, is not for us to fill in such great, blank slabs. We speak of managing time, but it is the opposite. Our lives are filled with businesses because those thin chinks of time are all we can truly master.

Hanya Yanagihara
About This Quote

In the movie “The Bourne Identity”, Matt Damon says, “Time is a flat circle.” This quote is a bit of a philosophical statement. It can also be interpreted as a metaphor for our lives. We don’t have any control over the way our days go. We don’t control when we wake up, when we go to bed, what we eat, or when we die.

So, when we say that we manage our time, it is the opposite of true. Time is not something that we can really master or control at all. Rather, it is what takes us from one place to another and how we spend our time that defines us and makes us who we are

Source: The People In The Trees

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