All of life is, in a sense, a problem of time management. We answer the question, not in the abstract, but in how we dispose of the hours we are given.
The fundamental problem is the same, but its nature changes. In youth, it is a question of how to use a meaningful fraction of the seemingly infinite. If there is a lack of knowledge or a lack of boldness, it is astonishingly easy to lose the time without much to show for it.
In middle age, the question is partially inverted: how to use a clearly finite and much committed resource in a way that protects the soul and allows it to continue growing internally.
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