It’s About Time

“How did all of this time pass?”, I asked myself. Youth is wasted on the young, I heard in a song a long time ago. At the time, I thought it was silly. Because I was quite young at the time. But now I get it. Time is really funny. You think you have a lot of it until you are out of it. Or until you see someone else’s time run out. When the latter happens, you may think, what am I doing with my time? And perhaps a bad habit is broken or a healthier one started. Or you go do the thing you said you’d always do but “never had the time to do”. Or maybe you just look at yourself or the world differently. We have all experienced this. Did it harden you or or did it make you more pliable and porous? Did you shut yourself off or did you grow toward a light that you didn’t know was there? Perhaps we have all done both. 

We learn over and over again that time is the ultimate foe, because it is not endless. Timelessness is not a benefit we have in this life. So what do we do with that? A limit on time is an opportunity. Embrace each little tiny moment.

Stop and look around you right now.
What do you see?
Close your eyes.
What do you hear?
Take a deep breath.

Those are moments in time where you made a choice to fully show up for time. Embracing it like an old friend. Well, it is an old friend. And we can have so much more of it by merely show up for it with our whole selves.