Time

Time.

It's our most precious commodity. It is ours to use and to waste however we please. It is finite. Whatever we use it for, we cannot get it back. Whoever we use it on, we cannot take it back.

We often worry about how much money we are spending, how we are spending it and where. Similarly, we don't worry that much about our time and how we spend it.

Like money, we sometimes spend our time foolishly. Perhaps with people who don't deserve a second more of our precious time. Unlike time, we can recover money by working harder or getting another job. Nothing in the universe allows us to gain back time, youth or moments wasted. Time is entropic. It keeps on being dispensed without our consent and leaves it up to us to keep up.

One of humanities most egregious flaws is how poorly we spend our time. We sometimes don't spend enough time with those closest to us. We don't always spend it with those whom we cherish the most and likewise cherish your time together. We don't always spend it on matters of the most importance personally, professionally nor globally. We don't usually spend it with those who would kill to have some of our time if only to enhance theirs. We are time killers. We use our time staring into our phones, staring into tv and computer screens, watching shows we have probably already seen......alone. We find silly games to play in the middle of "downtime" not realizing for a second that these seconds will never come again. That once these seconds happen, they are gone and and gone for good. We rarely take into account that one day, we ourselves will become old and will have wished for something better. We might have wished to have done something differently or to have paid better attention to someone/something else. We will never fondly remember the times we played a mobile app game while in line at the grocery store instead of calling a friend from out of state or a family member you've lost touch with. We will never fondly remember binge-watching a tv show for hours/days on end at the prime of our youth when we could have spent that time outdoors, falling in love, trying new foods, or being with family or friends. It seems we are doomed to not realize that all of the things we know and love are also finite and that their existence on this earth is just as limited as our own. Not everything and everyone will be here tomorrow.

Yet here we are. A race lost in screens. Lost in our own worlds of technology and denial. This isn't a call to live every day like it's your last as I have never subscribed to such an unrealistic and horrifically selfish philosophy. This is the call from someone who is akin to a financial advisor. Spend your time more wisely. While it is impossible to spend every second like it counts for something greater than yourself and the world at large; it is very much possible to spend our time knowing that we won't be here tomorrow with no guarantees of an afterlife where we see each other again like it's a high school reunion. We are all guilty of spending our time poorly.


Maybe tomorrow we can change that.