Hi,
where does the time go? What do I get done in an hour, a day, a month, a year? Am I measured by my accomplishments, their successes or failures? Or is my time my own to pass as I see fit? Why am I pondering the concept of 'time' today? The clocks moved ahead one hour last night. We all 'lost an hour'. Did I really lose anything other than a little sleep. I don't sleep very much to begin with so it wasn't much of a loss in my books, but time shifted. Can it do that?
The speed of time is fascinating to me. A week of school seemed to drag on forever. A week of vacation flew by. Same week, same number of days and hours, but the change in activity changed the time. As we age, and we are all doing it no matter how much plastic surgery Joan Rivers has, we realize that time is a finite thing in our lives and should not be wasted. I think the best use of time is to make sure we use it with no regrets. Choose to take a year off from school, okay but realize you will never get that time back, use it wisely. Take time to learn something new, like a language or how to paint: make that investment worth the time taken.
Taking time for granted is the most wasteful item in our life. Time stops for no one. I like that sage. I have a clock that constantly ticks in the back of my mind. Really, I hear time count off seconds every hour of every day. I 'feel' time, it's motion and movements. As I get older I realize that I have far less time than I have already spent. Have I spent my used up time usefully? I try to, but not always with success. I hate to waste a moment. I know I will never get it back. I no longer have 'all the time in the world'.... but I also don't feel rushed to get anything special done.
I'm now spending my time on what I like, with whom I love, and where I want. I have become very selfish about this time. No more frittering away hours trying to solve things I have no control over. I will not waste a precious second worrying about 'media mania'. The latest and greatest crap on the news, net, IPad... what ever. None of it affects me and I don't waste a single second dealing with any of it. My time is for taking care of myself, my husband, my family, my friends. The people and things I find important, not what the TV is shouting at me about. That is not time well spent.
As I pass through time, I feel the urge to stop people and ask them if they think they are using their time to the utmost. I know I would only get a puzzled look, maybe a shrug or a shake of the head. Forget about asking "what time is it?" and move to "I know the time is now".
xox
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Somewhere along the way I crossed a line and realized that the feeling of immortality I had when I was younger was merely an illusion. Now, as I get closer to that finish line so shrouded in fog, I realize that I only have a limited number of days and hours left. Time takes on a new priority, as does how I spend it. So I make sure to do things for me, my family and friends. I want to limit my regrets and experience all that I can in the time I have left.
ReplyDeleteSo to all of you not yet doing it; Get out, get active and enjoy life! It's getting shorter every day.
Joel