Monday - Day 267 - The Essence of Time

Time is an interesting concept. There are days we feel we have too much time and not enough to do. Then there are other days, there seems to be less time in our day and too much to do.  How often do we feel like we are scrambling to get everything squeezed into one day?

The old saying,"Time flys when you're having fun"  holds true in many instances.

But doesn't "Time stands still when we're waiting on life to happen to us."  Also hold truth? 

Like a race, we are always working toward a goal, a finish line, an ending.  Looking forward to the next big thing.  

As kids, life seems to be one long waiting game.  Kids count the weeks and the days until Christmas, summers of freedom and their birthdays.  Impatience slows down time to a crawl.  

As teenagers, it is all about getting a break, a break from school and anticipation of high school graduation. We wait for spring break, Christmas break 
and summer breaks.  We long to get past finals and spend our time gossiping swirled in drama, locked in our rooms pondering our life and time. 

As young adults we push through college, wait on our careers to blossom, and wonder when we'll met our life long mate.

Life is moving along fast, with ease, but still we're waiting as there seems to something missing. 

  

As adults, we get married, wait for our children to be born, and then look forward to their diaper-less years.  We look towards vacations, the perfect home or maybe a raise to pay off the perfect home.   It is another waiting game, compounded with our children's life milestones.  "Mom, how many more days until Christmas??"

As older adults, we reflect on all those years we wished to hurry along to get to the next best thing.  We long to recapture our childhood moments, our children's younger years or a day when our hair was not falling out or gray.  However, life has slowed down.  We appreciate things in a whole new light.

We may or may not make changes to our lives as we age.  We will however, be appreciative of our days and weeks, as they are no longer endless.  A limit will have fallen upon our lives.  People we loved will have passed on and the days in our lives become sacred, cherished and less plentiful. 

No matter how we choose to live our lives, time is of the essence. It is the one thing we all have in common and the one thing we can never reclaim.  How we spend our time is unique.  Do we choose happiness to link our moments into days or something other than happiness?

The time in our life is like a chain link: 

Our thoughts link our days to create our life.  

If we are only as strong as our weakest link, 

which thoughts are needless, 

keeping our life chain strong and intact?