Management and Consumption of Time
Time: Management vs Consumption
: Dr. Manoj Kumar Patel :
In
order to contain the spread of covid19 virus, lockdown period enforced in India on 23rd
March 2020 is still continuing. Hopefully, we shall come out of the danger of
the virus. Down the line maybe a few months later normalcy will return to our
daily lives. Let us hope for the best.
Today
I went to purchase some necessary materials like vegetables and groceries. It
took me about 15 minutes to get properly dressed u in masks and hand gloves, 1-hour to complete the purchase, about 15 minutes to keep the purchased materials
in a corner in quarantine for next 24 hours before it will be transferred to
the shelves and fridge, 1 hour to clean myself up through extended bathing, and
then 10 minutes to sterilize the handles of the doors. The grocery purchased is
sufficient for another 15 days and the vegetables purchased will be sufficient
for my family for another 7 days. So, I had to use about 2 hours and thirty
minutes to arrange food materials for 15 days. This amount of time is for the
purchase from the nearest point despite quality as available and not as per
quality desired. In the normal circumstances, the time needed for this much of
purchases from these vendors would have taken a 1-hour maximum.
Point
is, when the pandemic is out and we are under social distancing and working
from home, the time is now getting consumed in carrying out activities hitherto
not required pre covid19 period.
Take
the description easy. Jotting down the thoughts was one of my other ways to use
plenty of time now available in the absence of office work.
Nice
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