Time-Bottling

Janene asked:
If you could save time in a bottle, what’s the first thing that you’d like to do? (Pssst! This is an old song from the 1970s. I just realized you may not of heard it before! 🙂 )

As a general rule, I avoid all ’70s music. I do, however, every once in a while, break my rule. I did go ahead and listen to this song, just so that I could have an idea of where your question is coming from. The sentimentality isn’t entirely lost on me, but I try to be practical with my use of resources, so if I had the ability to save time in a bottle, I think I would do one of three things (or maybe all three, depending on the limitations of time-bottling).

1. I would use it to procrastinate indefinitely and catch up on sleep. Really, how many times have you been dreading a deadline that seemed to be ruthlessly drawing closer, with your workload hopelessly growing larger? I’m not sure if the concept works like that, but I’d love to have some “extra time.”
2. I would bottle time and sell it. I’m pretty sure that time in a bottle would sell like–and perhaps even better than–hotcakes. Just set up a website, link a paypal account, and pay for school. I like it.
3. A third option would be to use the extra time to develop new technologies. Maybe we could settle Mars, domesticate unicorns, or cure cancer. Something cool like that.

So, there you go. That’s what I’d do if I could save time in a bottle. What would you do?

Happy 72nd Anniversary of the end of the Russo-Finnish Winter War!
~XK

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