An old folk tale goes like this: Once all the animals had a meeting to complain about mankind, saying that human beings kept stealing what belonged to them. The hen mentioned its eggs, the cow its milk, the sheep its wool etc. Only the snail said: I have something that people cannot steal from me: "Time"! Today, such statement sounds truer than ever. If you think about it, you realize that (almost) everybody living in the modern world seems to never have enough time to do whatever they decided they have to do. Every action is planned, every moment for doing stuff is written down: meetings, business trips, phone calls, videochat, sending emails, booking restaurants, catching the train, taking the children to school, to sport activities, to music lessons etc...Time for traditional, spontaneous visits with friends seems to have become a rather complicated affair to be arranged well in advance. Very little time for leisure, just running here and there, always busy being...busy! Lucky snail, it still hasn't changed its way of living.
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