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.

We think we have a lot of it until we are out of it. Or until we see someone else’s time run out.

When the latter happens, we may think, what am I doing with my time?

And perhaps a bad habit is broken or a healthier one started.

Or we go do the thing we said we’d always do but “never had the time to do”.

Or maybe we just look at yourself or the world differently.

I know we have all experienced this.

The question is, do we shut ourselves off or do we open up? I’ve done a little bit of 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.

Here is a practice I have learned. Something I do when I’m feeling off centered.

I stop and look at my surroundings.
I ask myself, what do you see?

I close my eyes.
I then ask myself, what do your heart?

I take a deep breath and fully tune into the moment.

A choice to fully show up for time, embracing it like an old friend.

Well, it is an old friend. I just have to keep in touch.”

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Even in the mud, something is beginning.