Jul '24 (edited) • Life
Taking Time and Giving Time
This is topic I was thinking about when I was laying on the turf grass after a workout. In my state of exhaustion and reflection on why I just tortured myself physically for 45 minutes voluntarily, a thought popped in my head. The saying people propose when they need extra time. When we’re running late or needing more time to complete a project or arrive at a movie theater with friends, what do we typically say? We say, “Hey, I’m sorry I’m running late. GIVE me five minutes and I’ll be ready.” I never realized how much meaning was behind those words. Because what you’re asking that other person to do is to treat their time as they would a dollar bill. But that’s not an equal trade. Because time is invaluable. The amount of money people would pay to be 15,30, or even just 5 years younger, would be something that could be seen as a no brainer of a purchase. We treat time like our own economy. How even though we will spend money, we can always go out and make more. But when we “spend” our time, it’s lost forever. We can’t go out and find some job that grants us access to be able to age in reverse. Once we’ve taken or given those 5 minutes, they’re gone. It’s make me think all the times that I’ve wasted my own or someone else’s time. And how I treated time as a renewable resource. When in fact it’s the one resource we haven’t found a way to recycle and get the most out of. We keep wasting our own and others on silly tasks that have no meaning to who we are or what we are actually meant to be doing. It’s a topic that makes you more conscious to how respectful you are to others and your own time on this earth. Because, though you would think it’s common sense, our time will come when we are called to leave this earth. And how did we spend our time? Were we wasting it and doing things that just fed our instant gratification? Or were we channeling it into the things that make us feel alive? There’s 86,400 seconds in one day. I think a strong start for me is using each next second on the things that truly matter. The same might be true for you too.
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Taking Time and Giving Time
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