The Best Bank Account Ever

You have a bank account. Every day, $86,400 appear in that account. You can take money out of the account whenever you want to. You can use it all, or you can use none of it. This $86,400 is replenished every single day.

Here’s the catch: at the end of the day, whatever money that’s left in that account disappears. It doesn’t carry over to the next day. The next day, you simply start with a new $86,400.

With this magical bank account, wouldn’t you try and use the full $86,400, every day?

It’s a metaphor for time. Every day, we have 86,400 seconds. We choose how many of those seconds we use. We decide what activities to spend those seconds on. But at the end of every day, whatever seconds we didn’t use are gone forever.

[I heard this concept somewhere, but can’t remember the source.]

Money is something we can make more of. We can’t make more time. Each person is gifted a limited amount. We can’t trade it with others, we can’t save time for rainy day.

So in a world chasing money, I’m chasing time.