I'm reminded of the essayist Tim Kreider's insightful observation that anger is fun: Although we may consciously experience it as upsetting, somatically it feels a lot like the first rush of an opiate — a tingling warmth on the insides of your elbows and wrists, in the back of your knees … Once I realized I enjoyed anger, I noticed how much time I spent experiencing it.
Even with such mundane items as a hairbrush or a mirror, time is spent, experiences are lived and memories are made.
However, my email and Twitter account is inundated with updates from acquaintances who either failed university or chose not to go and are excelling faster than those with degrees thanks to the time spent gaining experience.
Of the few studies that stated they had accounted for rural background, the strongest predictors for practising rurally, following graduation, were location of the medical school and time spent gaining experience in rural practices during medical education.
We used standard instruments to evaluate the time spent and burden experienced by informal caregivers.
In a secondary analysis based on self-reported physical activity, women who decreased their time spent in sports/exercise experienced a mean increase in CRP (0.09 mg/dL, 95 % CI: −0.14, 0.33), whereas women who maintained or increased their sports/ exercise experienced a mean decrease in CRP (−0.08 mg/dL, 95 % CI: −0.23, 0.08) (p = 0.046).
Indeed, many would say that talk of "meaning" by definition excludes the possibility of it coming from time spent in an experience machine (although there have been a small handful who disagree and contend that a meaningful life just is a pleasant life. Goetz 2012, in particular, bites many bullets).
Because we controlled for these comorbidities, based on our results, it can be concluded that a driver of minor wound complications, such as superficial infections, may be associated with increased time spent in hospital as experienced by inpatients.
Time spent ruminating about negative experiences over which I feel little control -- both inside my head and in conversation with understanding and empathetic others, feeling guilty about relatively insignificant decisions I have made, and worrying about my uncertain future could have been better used celebrating the glorious gift of my life.
