Few of us today still read Voltaire, the great French writer and philosopher. We would, however, agree with Voltaire's assertion that nothing is shorter than time. Most of us never seem to have enough of it.
Time is an elusive sunbeam, an evaporating raindrop, a wilted dandelion on a windy day. We cannot, physically, catch it; nor can we harness it and make it our own. Time management is an illusion, because no one can really manage time. Time, simply is constant. It is a measurement of intervals. It moves at the same rate regardless of who we are or what we are trying to accomplish. It respects no one. No one can convert, change or otherwise mitigate time. Despite this, we continue to use the phrase, "manage time" to identify our efforts to use our allotted moments meaningfully.
