This German fairy tale hits home to busy and tired professionals or just about any busy people including children.
Time is a unique flower which is more beautiful than than other flower which is more beautiful than the other flower. That is, each flower is the most beautiful of all in its own priceless way — if you keep it to yourself.
Chat with friends; smell the roses; think as long as necessary to identify the right answer; be creative in coming up with the way you play by using whatever available, however simple it might look. These are some of the examples of watering your flower. The thing is to take your time as long as you feel satisfied. You don’t need to obtain toys which are supposed to be fancy; rather, they might deprive you of creativity.
Many Japanese’s standard greeting is “Are you busy?” in lieu of how are you. Better answers are “Yes, I have to do this and that” or “Yeah, kind of.” In other words, demonstrating or at least hinting how busy you are is important to indicate you’re a capable professional and an important person. If the answer is “No, I’m not busy,” many might judge you as an unimportant, lazy individual.
But is that really the case? The letter that means busy in Japanese and Chinese writes 忙, meaning your heart is dead. In MOMO, the time master says people are controlled by an unseen agent from the Time Saving Bank to save time and pursue efficiency. For that purpose everything is organized and templated. In this process, creative juices are dried up and people’s eyes are no longer shiny.
In fact, time is under your control, but you need to notice that. Otherwise, the Time Saving Bank steals your time and life, making you gradually neither alive or dead, undermining your emotions and passion and finally depleting them.
I used to see a friend who was always waiting for me at the meeting place. For the first time I showed up first, ten minutes before the meeting time. When he appeared in five minutes, I said “For the first time, I was waiting for you!” He replied, “Well, I had arrived two hours before and was looking for the best bench where we can sit down and talk; I brought some beer too, although it might be a bit warm. Let’s go!”
I can never forget the timeless friendship.
