BLOG # 10
The Time-Sweepers
By Ursula Wills-Jones
People who collect up all the time that is wasted are called
Time-Sweepers. This is a great story on realizing the time
that we waste and giving examples of how we are doing it. Some waste time
intentionally and others by lack of choice. Waiting on trains and taxi and in doctors’
offices, waiting on decisions to be made or in making them, and in spending
time in the malls, dull meetings and missed appointments, counting every minute
and loathing the hours. Ever wonder what happens to the time we waste- it is
recycled!
The story of Time-Sweepers is fiction however; the story
itself of how we waste time is factual.
Activities:
1-
Have students make a list of everything thing
they did today that was a waste of time
2-
How could they have made positive use of the
time?
3-
In the story-time is recycled, have the students
explain what that means and discuss the ideas in the story
I enjoyed this story, it really pointed out some ways that
time is wasted that we just don’t think about. We are rushing our lives by, time
is flying and we can never get it back. We go into work on Monday’s and immediately
started counting the hours till Friday not thinking that when Friday gets here
we just rush another week of our lives by. We have aged another five days, what
we have said or done is over and gone. We need to make every minute count.
Today is all we have – make the best of it.
Wills-Jones, U. (2012, March). The Time-Sweepers.
Retrieved from Shortstories : http://www.eastof the web.com
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