Well, when I realized that what drew me more to India was books like A Passage to India by E.M. Forster and films like "Gandhi" I turned to my real love, books and films! Anyway, that belongs to another post because today the formatting Odyssey is finally over! (The formatting Odyssey also belongs to another post --any writer that is interested feel free to contact me-- I took all the wrong paths before taking the right ones!) I was thinking how Time Not Wasted started and in a way it was inspired by the other story I was writing at the time. That one was so dark at times that I needed to let my mind wander elsewhere. In a sort of a fairy tale land. Not that in Time Not Wasted people are dancing in the fields collecting roses (even though some gathering the fruits of love IS mentioned) but that was the best I could do for not having too much angst. After all, fairy tales are not angst-free! Another inspiration was a Start Up/Young Entrepreneur course I took years ago.
It’s Greece, you know, the crisis has hit us full force and we all try to reinvent ourselves. No need to say that I’m not an entrepreneur material and marketing is NOT my strong suit but what I learned is that writers and entrepreneurs are not so different. They both think about their ideas all day long and they both have very few possibilities to succeed! Anyway, one day a lecturer said that time is very important and delegating was the best solution when one could use this earned time to do more productive things. I looked around at all those people who heard the lecture with hungry eyes, dreaming of money and success -- the immediate solution to most of their problems -- and I realized how important time really is. One can make money but can he make time? When Odysseus met Achilles in Hades in Odyssey Achilles told him that he’d exchange all his fame and glory for a simple, long life. I don’t know what your relationship with time is (even though I’d like to know!) and surely the point is not living our lives worried that we waste time. The point is to make every moment count, to make it “not wasted” and reading was always one of the activities I never regretted or considered a waste of time.
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