Life & Time

     Life comprises of ups and downs, good and bad, right and wrong but all in all, I believe that we can all agree that life is too short and beautiful to be wasted. Time is the most precious and valuable commodity we have and yet it’s never enough, it is extremely expensive but the majority of the time we waste it on the things that won’t even matter in the long run. We sit and we wait, thinking and believing that we have the time on our hands so we’re free to go get that job later, we think we can visit loved ones later, that we can fall in love later, or push family and friends aside because we will always have them around later. We don’t realize that the word LATER in itself has already failed us because we don’t have later, but what we do have is right now and we have to take advantage of the moment while it is at our feet, don’t wait because you never know if it will be your last. Neglecting objectives, your health, or loved ones isn’t fair to them and it isn’t fair to you, sooner or later it will come back to bite you, and when you realize it will be too late, that later that you were waiting on will already be gone or it simply won’t even matter anymore. 

     We tend to spend a lot of our time in the land of what-ifs and life is just way too short for that. If you love someone tell them, if you want that job then apply for it, if you want to climb Mount Everest then start climbing, these things are all your choices to make so you might as well just start doing it while you’re still here and still able to. In life, there are insurmountable lessons to be learned and these lessons serve as stepping stones for us, stepping stones of future choices that come with manuals known as the past. You see, those lessons aren’t just there as a scarlet letter they are there to guide you and help you make proper choices in the future. Many individuals tend to lock them away and forget them but in actuality, they do serve their own purpose in each and every one of our lives. 

     Life is a compilation of so much, yet we spend a huge if not all of it dwelling on one thing, one person, one moment and we use it to define ourselves, to define our lives. The question is why…why are we slaves to self-condemnation? Although each situation and person are different, I can safely say that we have all had our moments where we have been caught up so much so that we lost track of the original path we were on. Some of us have been lucky enough to break free and get back on the right path while others have not been. Regardless as the saying goes, life goes on and so does time without even missing a tick and we have to keep moving along with it as long as we have breath in our lungs. 

     Do you believe that it is safe to say that life is time and time is life? At the end of our lives, time will stop for us but it goes on for the rest of the world but when time ends then that will also be the end of all life as we know it. Hence why time will always be the most precious commodity that we can never afford. So, know that we all have only one shot at this thing called life and we have to use the time we’ve been given as properly as we know how because there are no do-overs. If you never have before then make time now for all the things that you have been putting off until later. The saying is true that time waits for no one and we’ve proven that time and again, so don’t waste this amazing life that God has blessed you with because you never know what lies around the corner of the path that is your life.