Letter to the editor: Time to let time stop running our lives

I guess it’s time to join a gym for a year membership, only to go for the first month and find out that it’s real hard work to try to get into shape.

It is time to check our credit card balances, for we may have overspent and hiked up our huge interest bills over the holidays.

Valentine’s Day is coming. It’s time to tell our loved ones that we love them and buy millions of dollars worth of flowers and candy. Soon it will be time to dress up and go to church, eat more chocolate and ham, and color eggs.

We are programmed by time, when to overspend and overeat, when to exercise and when to tell our spouses that we love them. Biological clocks for women — isn’t it time to have a baby?

We seem to be trapped like time travelers going through this free world being ruled by real-life time clocks.

We are regimented, to say the least. It is time to get unregulated and quit being programmed like we are robots with to-do lists and eyes on the clocks on walls, wrists, smartphones, TVs, PCs, etc..

It is time to close this letter by saying it might be time for a vacation after being programmed with all the holidays and events that happen in our lives. We can free up our lives a little bit by not letting time get the best of us. It is time to relax and live stress-free for a while, don’t you think?

James Illinsky

Springdale