Time is precious.
Yet we often forget how we spend our time is as important as how much of it is left. Do we have time to get to the store, are clothes still on sale, will we get to work on time, are all valid concerns, but it’s being part of a viral group laugh that makes life worth living. And that can’t be bottled, saved, or sold.
Articles are written on how to be more productive by managing and saving time, yet little on how to raise the quality of that time. While picking up groceries and still having time for the kids after school is important, it needs to be balanced with patience and humour.
Time is free. There is never an issue with finding enough of it and there’s more coming tomorrow. It’s so freely abundant that it is absurd to try and save some for later. The issue is with expecting too much out of one single moment. There is even a name for it: multitasking.
When we have too many tasks for an allotted amount of time, we try and defer some of them to a later date; and the more we focus on saving time now for something later, the more our lives become exhausting and dull. The attempt to make every second productive simply and abstractly while away the magic of life.
That is what makes time so precious. We only have so many chances to be a part of the charm of people, parties, and happenstance. We find friends while jogging, build community waiting for a bus, and meet life partners browsing for books. Every day is a new opportunity to create special memories for ourselves and each other.
Yes, the value of time is beyond measure when we look back on all the time we had with our loved ones, splashing in the rain, trying to keep from laughing on the subway, and adding to a better world by doing nothing more than being human. Time is precious, indeed, and what we look forward to when spending time with good friends, or going on vacation, or watching her first ballet recital.
Thank goodness time is free.
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