Time. Inevitable fact of our existence, no matter how we define it. One of the things that we continually strive to precisely define and which in the end, only gets to define us.
No matter which philosophical school we'll in the end support (the one that considers time to be part of the structure of our universe, a dimension which has its sequences in which it places events, or the other that defines this complex term as a fundamental intellectual structure (along with space and number) where time isn't a thing or event, and therefore cannot be measured....) we cannot avoid the fact that "time" lies right underneath the core of our existence. If you start thinking about it more deeply, you will with no doubt, get to the point of realizing that this life cannot be imagined without its time frame. All our beginnings and ends are defined by this exquisite paradigmatic term.
I started thinking about time while standing in a long line at the supermarket the other day... Very soon after the waiting was finished, I found myself riding on the bus towards my Faculty... and then it hit me - I spend at least 40 minutes daily riding by bus ! (unless I stay home, of course)... So, when you sum up just the time you spend in the public transportation and time spent in standing in the lines, you will come to terrifying conclusions... I won't even mention hours I spend sleeping in late in the mornings, thinking how crazy is to get up early every day... There is always another day for waking up early, right?...
Life is mostly spent in ridiculous time-consuming activities which we rarely even register at our list of activities... to the most precious things in our lives, we actually dedicate very little time... Howcome we barely even think about that? It seems to me like we are all going to wake up from this long-lasting hibernation at one point in life and realize that years are passing by and we have missed to do so much? We should be more careful how we spend our minutes...It seems like they are repeating one after another, but in fact not one minute is ever repeated. Once it passes, it will never come back to you... Use your time wisely...
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” -Be yourself. It sounds like such a cliche, but in fact, it is one of the most important messages in life. Follow your heart, not your planner... Your planner and schedule are Time's slaves... They are there to serve to it. But your heart...Your heart is there to serve to you and to the people you care about... We are temporary beings with the expiration date, with a chance to extend our existence through the people we love and things we do...
Steve Jobs
Living forever would be like not living at all... It is good that our time is limited, because that makes us see life as more delicate ... It is just bad if we find out late that we naively thought that this life could last forever and that life after all does have a limit...
Bear in mind that moments are truly fleeting. That time passes... That it passes with no chance of reversing.
...and then- find enough time to be happy.
