I am wondering about the following tenses:
every time you do nothing, you waste 3 minutes of your life
—> I think this could work if it was seen as a general rule.
Every time you do nothing you are wasting you time.
—> focuses on the background action.
Any time you try to explain something to my friend I am just wasting my time, she never listens.
I think this is correct.
). ", would be okay. The sentence, "Every time I try to explain something to my friend, I'm just wasting my time.
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The sentence, "Every time you do nothing, you waste 3 minutes of your life.", is okay (but why exactly, and only, 3 minutes?).
The sentence, "Every time you do nothing, you're wasting time.", would be okay.
The sentence, "Every time I try to explain something to my friend, I'm just wasting my time. She never listens." would be okay.