I think it was a bit of a sleight of hand to make it about time. Because time is quantifiable. You can give 5 minutes of your time but I figure most people can attest that has little to do with how much actual attention you’re giving. And it’s attention that we crave. That’s what social media is built upon. When you really love and enjoy something or someone, you’re thinking of it, even if you’re not actively engaged with it. And on the other hand, if you give something attention for long enough, you do start to develop some kind of an attachment on it ( which easily becomes unhealthy too, like doom scrolling ).

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    I wrote very broadly (on purpose). Never defined the nature of the meeting. What your mind says about me has little to do with my life.

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          You wrote an entire paragraph literally describing work meetings being a waste of time and somehow don’t even realize it?

          I think i now understand why the phrase was so confusing to you

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            Quite frankly it’s somewhat disturbing that you take a fairly neutral description of an unspecified event as “writing an entire paragraph about how work meetings suck”. You are overlaying a hell of a thought framework of your own onto the text I wrote and then telling me I’m the one with a problem. Ironic really, since you started off saying the world is illiterate.