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Oliver Burkeman: What if I never change?

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Is There a Separation Between You and Time?

There's a sort of separation that has been imported back into yourself, right? Time is something you use. You can use it well or badly. You can waste it. You can find ways to save itand all the rest of it. Andam, i'm not suggesting that we can or ever should, or could, you know, get rid of that way of thinking about time. It has given us huge proportions of what we value about a modern life. But if you'd have asked a early mediaeval peasant in yorkshire, in england, where i'm speaking from now, they wouldn't be able to answer those questions. They would say things like 'you feel too

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