Written, March 20, 2026 For The Contest, "Dealing In Time" ~ First Place Sponsor, Joseph May ~
Theme: People often say that Time is Money, But what if time were the currency? How would you navigate a world where the currency was Time?
We've all heard it said that time is money- exchange for purchasing or hours worked. What if it were the other way around and time becomes the valued currency? Then money equals time, a reversed gift. This exchange would then offer us a choice of what is valued at our stage of life. How can we ever honor it with time? I'd cash in half of all our lifetime savings and purchase time- increasing senior years! Extend our lives so that we surely can longer watch our five great-grandkids grow. Their ages range from one to only six. So, at our current ages, that can't be. If we could trade for fifteen years at least, would see them turn sixteen to twenty-one! Plus, receiving gifts of time rather than things would grant us extra ways to spoil them with our presence at future birthdays and those main events that grow and form their lives! With the other half of our money saved, exchange it for the value of more time to barter goods and services required to help us live those extra fifteen years.
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