“Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.” (attributed to John Lennon) –

The compulsion to choose between the many options the world offers, of which usually only a few can be accepted, and what’s more, only once in a lifetime and thus decisively determine one’s destiny, is one of the basic experiences of people in the globalized world. The imposition of the realization that one doesn’t have enough time to exhaust all possibilities creates – in a phrase coined by the Bochum philosopher Hans Blumenberg – „Weltmissbefinden“ and leads to incessant and futile attempts at compensation. The fear of missing out or being neglected has become a common companion in a world where the feeling of lack of time creates pressure to justify oneself. Why do this now and not something else? Couldn’t the available time have been used better?

Further Reading:

The Commitment to the Moment (Time Subjects)

Keywords:

Blumenberg, Kairos, The Right Moment

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