By Drew Bankston
If time were tangible, what would you do with it? Would you
portion it out into small chunks and put them in the freezer to save for later?
Would you file the used portions away and take them out when you wanted to
relive certain moments of your life? Would you destroy certain parcels so that
neither you, nor anyone else would ever think about them again?
Time is the one thing in life that we all wish we could
control. Some days we don’t have enough of it. Other days it’s with us in
abundance. We wish that we could go back and change it, relive it, see parts of
it that were there when we weren’t. We crave to see what the future time has in
store for us, for our children and for our descendants. Time is an amazing
thing.
We take segments of time and store them in our memories,
preserving them like a well kept scrapbook. But our memories can change, and
just as the pages of a scrapbook can yellow with time, our memories can change
with time as well. Time is like a river of water that wears away at the rocks,
and cliffs of our memories, and shapes them into what we wish to remember and
sometimes, what we wish that others would remember as well. We look at
ourselves as smarter, stronger, more resilient and in some cases, better looking.
Time can turn our past into the fantasy life that we only wished we had. It can
make our memories happy and sad. It can create solace and forgiveness. It can enhance bitterness and regret.
But we can control time to some extent, and the effects that
it has on us. Exercise, proper eating, sleep habits, partying habits and so on
can control the physical effects to some extent. They can be enhanced with
cosmetics, surgery and other interventions that we’ve created to make ourselves
look and feel better. But, no matter what we do, it marches on. Each second
ticks by no matter how hard with wish of will it not to.
Time is an incredible thing. It does so much to us. In the
end we cherish and value it. We want more of it. Each second becomes precious
and we want each one back. It goes faster as we desire more and slips away
before we know it.
Use some of your time to love, and laugh and enjoy life to
the fullest. Time can be wasted on those things that don’t bring us happiness.
Don’t waste your time, because any wasted is gone forever. Live every second.
Smile whenever you can. Leave this world a better place and forever change it
for the best!
Drew
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