If time is the most valuable commodity, then yes.
What is most valuable to you? Is it how much money is in your bank account? How much bitcoin you have? How big of a truck you drive or how fancy your car is? Does it matter to you that you have the latest fashions or that you are relatively wrinkle free for your age? Sure, working remote has a lot of advantages.
Does all this really matter?
Is this really all there is?
I have been concerned that perhaps this is the sort of message I have been sending my kids without even realizing it. We commodify and gamify everything. Chores? Allowance. Do your homework? Reward. Birthday coming? Buy that gift, and maybe more.
Not that there is anything wrong with these methods inherently. It is how our society works. But given that, it seems we need to be even more consistent in showing the fallacies of this sort of living.
What really is valuable in life
Things don’t fill you up.
Your worth is not based on what you own.
You are not able to bottle up love and sell it.
No- the best things in life are free- and cannot be bought.
It’s an often-repeated adage that we are all given a gift on a daily basis of 24 hours in a day. It’s free. We all get it. After those 24 hours are up, they are gone. Never to return again.
Ask someone who has cancer about their most valuable possession- it’s not an object. It’s time. Time to breathe. Time to live. Time to be with those close to them. I have a friend who has cancer- thankfully in remission, but he knows it will return most likely. He recently told me- “I don’t want any more things. I want to get rid of things. I want to be with people. I want to have good conversations. I want to connect.”
Look for those pockets of time that are gift today.
Hug your kids a little longer.
Linger with your spouse a bit more.
And take a walk outside to enjoy nature.
After today, today is gone.