Good test

Time is an interesting thing. It is part figment and part actual and it's quite perception-dependent.
I like to think our relationship with it is 1b in this life as it is most everything we have.
How we choose to spend it depends on a lot of things, and this is primarily up to us.
There are plenty of reasons it might not be, and there are plenty of emotions within that web, but boiling it down to a soul and freedom and things the majority of us seek out of a lifetime, this is a tie that most definitely binds. We all want mainly the same things. Talking about a lot of things otherwise is not only somewhat of a waste of time but it actually is fragmenting and this hurts us on a societal level.
We're looking for progress, we're looking for a better life for ourselves, for our kids and other kids. Our attention to these facts is so key and a very strengthening thing. The distractions will come, but they will indeed go away even after returning again and again and again. This is the soul at work.
Today, try something out. Sit somewhere for 10 minutes and just look around. No phone, nothing.
Pretty much observe the surroundings and yourself. This was commonplace even 10 years ago, but today it is not so much. That is called rapid change and it has happened on a very large level. We all know the reasons for it, and thus we mainly know how to again seize control of our time and health and more of who we want to be.
I used to say to myself "Be aware, go from there." It may sound corny, but if you are reading this, you know it to be true on even a minor level. There is a problem though. We don't partly even know where to go anymore, and this is because of a lack of awareness. When the first thing doesn't happen, so does confusion, and many forms of escape, and some even choose to escape this life altogether. It happens. And it doesn't "just happen" or become just another headline because there are reasons for it. There are reasons for everything most of the time.
So make use of what we have, and if not for oneself hopefully for those within one's surroundings.

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AoO-zRu8rE