Time: How Long Or How Well?

Time is an illusion. Einstein said it and he was super smart. Clocks, hourglasses and other time devices are just human inventions that help us measure and keep track of it.

Time is also relative.

5 minutes with someone you dislike can feel like a thousand years. It chocks your throat and burns like pepper and it makes you want to make it go faster.

3 hours with someone you love might fly past you making you feel as though it was just 2 minutes. You want to take it back or to make it go slower.

Even though everything is happening in the now and that time will always be in existence, the truth is that our time on earth is limited.

We are mortal humans racing against a clock. Trying to find ourselves and to make good use of all the opportunities time gives us while we still have the energy to do them.

Doing the things we love and spending time with the people who enrich it is the best use of our time.

What’s the point of the gift of time if you don’t use it to make yourself happy and fulfilled?

Where did the time go?

Is a phrase many people use to reminisce on the life they have lived.

Because time will pass anyway, it better pass while living a fulfilling life.

Different people find fulfilment in different things. It’s healthy to find fulfilment in something that impacts society in positive ways.

Would you want a normal long life or an extraordinary short life?

Many people live to be 100 and are forgotten 10 days later. A few live 12, 15, 27, 40, or 50 years and will be remembered for eternity.

Their great deeds and the impact they have on society transcends their short lives.

Anne Frank only lived for 15 years. And millions know her name, her story and the lessons. Michael Jackson was only blessed with 50 years on earth. And in his short life, he achieved what hundreds of millions will achieve combined.

It’s not how much time you get. It’s what you do with the time you get.

Thank you 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘊 for the thought-provoking prompt. ❤