TIME-SOMETHING WE TAKE FOR GRANTED
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
For some reason I have been thinking alot about life, about how short time is, how many things I want to do and how there is not enough time in a day to do everything I need to do, much less what I want to do. I take time for granted!!!
I keep running across all these things about time. The first one I noticed today said....Cigarettes shorten everything, time, money and life. I'm glad I don't smoke, but it still made me think of all the people I know who do. I wondered if they'd ever stopped to consider time.
Then later today I read something an American Soldier wrote about how the time in Iraq has changed her. She said the worst thing about being over there was that you have so much time on your hands that you notice everything about life and there is nothing about yourself that you can hide. Interesting to think about. Sometimes I don't have enough time to stop and think about life or to even notice until the end of the day when I lay my head down on my pillow and reflect back on the day.
I have even been thinking about how many times I have said...."It's about time!" lol! Funny, but I never thought about what I was really saying. But it's a true statement, it is about time.
And have you ever thought there is not enough time in a day, what about in a life, what about all the things you want to do, what about all the things you planned to do, what about now, are you doing what you thought you would be doing at this time in your life?
So now I am asking myself, what am I going to do with the time I have left. I want everyday to count. I don't want to waste anymore time. I want to make time to live, to love, to laugh to enjoy every moment I have left, to do everything I ever wanted to do.
Sometimes we get so caught up with working, doing what we have to do, that we forget to take the time to do the things we really want to do. We make all these excuses and don't accomplish what we could accomplish if we only stop taking time for granted.
I was reading Ecclesiastes the other day, I really think that book is about time. It talks about how there is nothing new under the sun, about the span of life, the meaning of life, and how so many things are meaningless. I just don't want to look back and wish I would of done this or that. I want to make the most of life (time) today.
How bout you? Ever thought about time and what you are doing with yours and is it what you really want to do, and what you are going to do with the time you have left? I am blogging the time away!!!
I keep running across all these things about time. The first one I noticed today said....Cigarettes shorten everything, time, money and life. I'm glad I don't smoke, but it still made me think of all the people I know who do. I wondered if they'd ever stopped to consider time.
Then later today I read something an American Soldier wrote about how the time in Iraq has changed her. She said the worst thing about being over there was that you have so much time on your hands that you notice everything about life and there is nothing about yourself that you can hide. Interesting to think about. Sometimes I don't have enough time to stop and think about life or to even notice until the end of the day when I lay my head down on my pillow and reflect back on the day.
I have even been thinking about how many times I have said...."It's about time!" lol! Funny, but I never thought about what I was really saying. But it's a true statement, it is about time.
And have you ever thought there is not enough time in a day, what about in a life, what about all the things you want to do, what about all the things you planned to do, what about now, are you doing what you thought you would be doing at this time in your life?
So now I am asking myself, what am I going to do with the time I have left. I want everyday to count. I don't want to waste anymore time. I want to make time to live, to love, to laugh to enjoy every moment I have left, to do everything I ever wanted to do.
Sometimes we get so caught up with working, doing what we have to do, that we forget to take the time to do the things we really want to do. We make all these excuses and don't accomplish what we could accomplish if we only stop taking time for granted.
I was reading Ecclesiastes the other day, I really think that book is about time. It talks about how there is nothing new under the sun, about the span of life, the meaning of life, and how so many things are meaningless. I just don't want to look back and wish I would of done this or that. I want to make the most of life (time) today.
How bout you? Ever thought about time and what you are doing with yours and is it what you really want to do, and what you are going to do with the time you have left? I am blogging the time away!!!
posted by Live, Love, Laugh | 5:06 PM
8 Comments:
Wow, we are on the same wavelength. I have been thinking about the same thing. My son's 7th birthday is on Friday. And just yesterday, I was changing his diapers.
Ecclesiastes is one of my favorite books.
You are so right about time. We need to live deliberately, not just swept along by circumstances or responsibilities.
There's a little saying my mom likes to quote. Maybe you've heard it before:
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift; that's why it's called the present.
I feel exactly the same way about time. All the verbs we use with money we use with time. I'm retired, and in terms of time, I'm a millionaire! But oddly, time is something that exists only this side of heaven, so I guess God intends for us to use it wisely.
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We don't have a lot of time to do so much that we want to do. There is so much that I would like to do and even though I am young I know that I won't get to do some of those things.
I never would have thought that my life would be like it is now. I didn't think that I would have Baby until a few years later. One things about babies is that you appreciate time a lot more. Five mintues of a happy baby can seem so beautiful when compared with two mintues of a screaming baby. :)
So, what time is it?
Nice post, Sweeter.
We are on the same wave length sweeter. I spend most of my days thinking what a waste of time my job is. I sit and do nothing and think of all the other things I could be doing. How my life is wasting away sitting her day after day. There are so many things I still want to do and accomplish. Sometimes it's difficult to decide where to start.
Robin....I had never heard that saying, but I love it! My favorite, God does not promise us tomorrow, so so make the most of today. What if today were our last day on earth?
I started this thought process a few years ago and it took me two years to finally walk away from my job that was ruining my health.
I may be financially poorer but I am rich in ways I never could have imagined.
A friend once told me that currency comes in many forms, and she was right.
very thought provoking, eddie's mom! time does go fast, and it is slippery when we try to hold on to it.
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