1)What would it mean to say “time is a gift”? How different is “time as a gift” from “time as money”? How might such a view change our lives? Can you think of any negative aspects to this view of time?
Time is a gift, to me rings true. I take the phrase as meaning that the time we have in a day, month or year is a gift to us. I especially begin to appreciate time in the essence of how it is available to me, although I might fill it with mindless things such as a full time job. I think it's important, that you use the time that you have to do what you love doing whether that is reading, sleeping, fishing, cross stitching, martial arts etc....
Time as a gift versus time as money to me is completely opposite. When someone says "time is money" shows that their view of time is only measured in amounts of money, which is something that is very valuable to most people in our society. The easiest relation to time as a gift, for example, would be if your boss realizes your stressed and tells you to take a personal day and you realize how amazing it is to just do things for yourself (which I'm sure we can all acknowledge as rare at our age).
I don't think our mainstream society would consider time as a gift, until they have a close call with not having any time left at all, or having someone close to them that has no time left on this earth. Still, peoples lives revert back to the way society has built them to be.
It is entirely possible for people to live their life knowing that every second of their day is a gift, although they might categorize this way of living in the "crazy" section next to what the results of the Peoples Temple in Jonestown when they decided to live differently from our society.
/rambling
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