Highlighting Time

Three words I try not to use as it involves dependency or slavery to time.

However I use them as I am a competitive consumer and endeavour to reduce my dependency on destructive consumerism.

It is beyond my knowledge if a free-flowing stream is content to give up it's freedom to the sea or the sea to the air and the air to the rain, though arguably H²O may well enjoy the journey; but what of the river dwellers and their consumption and what of the clouds.

A solution is as far fetched as - I am the problem.