Time As A Teacher

Time is the one constant in our lives. We are all treated equally by time; it is only how we spend it that defines how we live.

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

C. S. Lewis

The other constant related to time in our lives is how we take it for granted. That is of course, until we realize we will run out of it. We cannot change the forward momentum of time, but we can certainly change how it flows through our lives each day.

“Take time like the river that never goes stale. Keep going and steady. No hurry, no rush.”

Rumi

Time cannot reach an hour without going through the sixty minutes that precede it or the sixty seconds in each of those minutes. Time does not try to turn a Monday into a Friday or to wish the week away to get to the weekend. Slowly and surely, it made it there, arriving at the same time as we did without missing a beat along the way.

“Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.”

Charles Caleb Colton

We become good students of time when we realize the importance of our process of living for this moment before we move on to the next. Or worse, we try to cheat ourselves out of life by jumping ahead to the hour that isn’t here yet. Instead, we ignore the sixty minutes necessary to make the hour possible.

We all want more time and complain that there never seems to be enough of it. How can we do a better job of utilizing the time that has been gifted to us?

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”

William Penn

Start by adding value to your time. Find joy in the time you have. All the time you have is all the time there is. When your time is gone, it doesn’t return to give you a chance to do it over.

“Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful you don’t let other people spend it for you.”

John Dryden

Talk soon…

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