Time

One of my profs once quipped that before a test you only have a finite amount of time to study and that therefore everything else should be postponed till after the test.  After all you could always go to a bar or a party after a test just as well as before.  But you couldn’t study or prepare for a test after it happened.

This holds true for so many other parts of my life.  I therefore get easily annoyed by people that seem content on frittering away time specially if it’s my time.

Time is a commodity.  We can buy or sell it, we can borrow money against it.  The one thing that we can’t do is recover it. Once those particular seconds tick away they’re gone for good.

The average human has about 42 million minutes in his or her lifetime, and in those minutes you will have once in a lifetime events happen.  A comet might pass by, a world event might occur, or something as common as a first date with someone special.

I sometimes look back on my life and think about some of the frivolous things that I have spent my time on.  How I have had to pass up opportunities because I had other commitments I had to honor, how many hours I have had to spend in waiting lines or on hold.  What could I have done in that time?

I then think of my present life.  How am I investing my time?  What time commitments do I have that I have to honor and which can I drop?

I am just a little past my halfway point right now.  All things being equal I have about 20 million minutes left.  Morbid?  No!  It makes me appreciate my life more.  I spent a little over the first two decades of life getting ready to live it and the last two decades living it in a slightly better than average fashion.

I want to make those last four decades count!  Get the most out of them for as long as possible.  I don’t want to waste them away on waiting lines and in regrets.  Make it a life that will be worth looking back upon.  After all you can’t live your life after it ends.