I am re-writing my comprehensive project for the non-countable time here in library. While I am putting more informatioin into my paper to let my readers understand why the headline reflects American journalistic values and is a thing that anchors the theme of a piece of news, I wrote "..., time has a value." Suddenly, the slogan that Deng Xiaoping put on a billard struck my mind, ""time is money."
This slogan was put on a big billard at the main crossing that leads into Shekou Industrial District, the first area opened up to the West in mainland China. I remember some important magazines in south China and Hong Kong even wrote articles to comment this slogan. They said that this slogan represents the change that is going on in Communist China. Deng Xiaoping is the first one daring to use a materialistic word "money."
The slogan came to my mind in a sudden is because that I physically feel that what this sentence means to my life today. Time is money because human beings' life is a physical period. Our life can never be endless, this is how time comes to be a physical thing in our existing period in the world. Life is like a candle lited on the first we were born. We are consuming our lives in every moment.
I used to know that I want to know what to achieve in my life. Now I understand that I also have to know how to consume my life. Time is money because my life is limited. I cannot get what I want if I do not know how to consume my time.
