In the river of eternity, Time flows, A current swift, unstoppable it goes, Through the canyons of existence, it carves, A reminder that all we cherish, time starves.
With each sunrise, a treasure is bestowed, A precious gift, a day yet to be shown, But heed the ticking of the cosmic clock, For time, waits not, it races, it won’t dock.
In youth’s embrace, we dance with careless glee, As if endless moments we hold, carefree, Yet, like sand through an hourglass, it slips, And soon, we’re faced with life’s departing ships.
Through seasons, we can’t halt Time’s grand parade, The blossoms bloom, then wither, start to fade, The golden leaves, they too will kiss the ground, A cycle bound by Time, forever bound.
But fret not, for within each fleeting beat, Lie chances to embrace life’s rhythm sweet, To cherish every second as it flies, To seize the moments, before they disguise.
Let not the burden of lost time consume you, Embrace the present, let your heart be room, For Time’s a gift, not just a ticking clock, A chance to write our stories on life’s eternal rock.
So, let us savor each day’s gentle grace, And let love’s tender touch light up our face, For in this boundless tapestry we weave, The threads of time are ours to interleave.
Remember, time’s a friend and not a foe, With every tick, it gifts us seeds to sow, Embrace the journey, cherish every chime, For in this life, we only have so much time.
Time~ the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.
Life is nothing but the rolling of time and the experiences that each person collects along the way. We choose if we spend our time wisely or foolishly. Time is irrefutable, non-negotiable, and inevitable. We only get a finite amount of it, and our consciousness should be spent considering how we spend this most valuable of commodities. Evaluate your life and the people you spend time with, the thoughts you entertain, and the activities you participate in daily. Are these things a valuable use of your time? Be conscious of the things you love doing that make you feel alive and the people who add value to your life. Then spend more time with them doing things you value. It all begins with a conscious awareness of time in your thoughts, words, and actions.
Value of Our Time
Of all the possessions we have, time is the most valuable. Each of us has an invisible hourglass in which the sands of our lives are flowing continually. Unfortunately, we can’t see how much sand we have left, and ours could run out at any moment. This fact should make people treasure every second. If you knew today was your last day, then what would you do? What would you say? Who would you want to spend your time with?
Look at what you want to accomplish and see if it honors the time you have left or not. All of us are going to end this physical journey. That is the price for life. It doesn’t go on forever. That is what makes it valuable. Yet too much of our focus is on things that really don’t matter. How much money you have, the size of your house, the professional accomplishments, the time spent doing things that have little meaning and provide no real value to yourself or the world. Look at your time as the most valuable possession you own because when it runs out, the game is over.
Wasted Time
So we can’t control time. It moves at its own pace, slowly moving forward toward the next second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year, decade, or century. All that we can control is how we use our allotted portion. We have ultimate control over that. Every option in the world is available to you every day. Do you use the time to become better? Or do you let time use you? This is the basic decision we all make with each mindless activity we choose.
Time is slipping by, and the opportunity you have to make a meaningful addition to your life is disappearing with it. What do you want to accomplish? Are the things you are doing with your time taking you closer to that? Or moving you farther away? These simple questions applied to your activities, from work to personal relationships, should help guide you along the way. Most importantly, look at your people. Spending time with people that support and build you up is vital. Don’t waste time with small conversations containing cheap gossip about others or participating in activities that do not honor you. Time is marching, and your life is slipping by. Please don’t waste it. DON’T WASTE IT! Be conscious of what you are doing and who you it with.
Today
The strange thing about time is that it moves like a river. The important things are going to be gone and moved on downstream, and there is no getting them back. So spend as little time as possible complaining about them. It is wasted effort and will distract you from the things in your stream at this moment. Prepare for what is coming in the future but spend as little time as possible worrying about it.
Spend your time living in the moment available to you right now. Today is the most precious of commodities. Every 24 hours, you get a new one, and they are full of potential and possibility. Have thoughts about what you would like that possibility to include and take actions that will move you in that direction. Learn from the results of the day’s effort, and tomorrow you will get to try again when it becomes today.
Focus on the time you are in right now and make choices that allow you to make the most of your time. Make choices that honor you and what you want to accomplish. Riches, fame, love, or anything else can come to you in time.
Be conscious of your thinking (or not thinking) about time, people you are spending time with, and the actions you are taking to fulfill your goals and dreams. Always remember that the clock is running, and the choices you make will determine the joy and happiness contained in each precious second.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
We should all find activities in life that cause us to lose track of time and, more importantly, to not worry about what we “should” be doing with those precious moments.
In our daily lives, we are controlled by the clock. From the time we have to go to work to the time we are allowed to eat, and the time we can rejoin the freedom of life yet again. Time can be an all-controlling factor if you let it, but it does not have to be. You can live your life in your own time.
My Thoughts on Time
In reality, time is an invention of man to measure how we are doing in life. Our entire lives are run on time, from when we start our education to when we retire and every facet in between.
Yet what is time but an arbitrary agreement between us all that how long it takes the sun to move around the sun in a year? The time that it takes for the Earth to spin on its axis constitutes a day. Would the workweek be longer if it took more time to journey around the sun? Would we need less sleep if the day was shorter?
Really time is an agreement among all people on how we should measure our lives, and measure we do.
Getting Off Track with Time
For myself, when I am totally engrossed in an activity, there is a suspension of this arbitrary rule of time. Whatever activity I have been doing must be my complete focus. Not a part of my focus but the whole thing.
Writing to me becomes this many times. Leave all other thoughts behind and commit to the task of capturing a thought. There is no thought about what I am doing next or what has happened before but only the thought of the words and the page’s expression.
The time fades, and the thoughts continue to express. Yet this is not the only time I have experienced timelessness.
Finding the Timelessness Each Day
This is really a difficult thing to do, but shouldn’t there be a moment during each day when time really doesn’t matter? I have found this in different places over the course of my life. Meditation is a great one.
I currently have about 15-20 minutes dedicated to this. Since I am relatively new at meditating, I am always shocked when you achieve clearing your mind, and time really doesn’t matter. It still exists, but it doesn’t apply to that activity.
I do not set the alarm, but that time seems to pass quickly, sometimes like a second or two. When you lose your awareness of something, does it matter? This is definitely a time where I lose track of time.
When you achieve mindfulness in any activity, then losing track of time is a consequence. If you are worried about finishing what you are doing and then doing the next fifteen things on a list, then there is no way you will lose track of time.
In fact, the time’s awareness will allow you to feel that you don’t have enough time. That is just a perception because time doesn’t really exist anyway. When I focus on the task at hand and experience what comes with it, I can lose track of time.
Love Of Course Takes Time
As anyone who has experienced the pangs of love will know, time does not seem to exist the same as it does anywhere else. I believe that is because your entire being would not rather be anywhere else but fully engrossed with the object of your affection.
How many days have you spent that moved by quickly in the experience of love? Yet as you recall them later, you can remember each part of the experience? How they smiled, how their touch felt? How much you just loved being with them?
These feelings are definitely the times in life that I have lost track of time. Unfortunately, it isn’t easy to keep these moments and to make every day like that. I am told that some can do it. I had only had a few fleeting moments in life when I lost in the moment with love. They were good moments.
Conclusion
When you can focus completely on what is happening in your life, time becomes less important, and you are apt to lose track of it. I know there is a time for all things, yet I think that much of the magic of life occurs when we stop keeping track of time and just let things happen as they should. Focus on the moment at hand, not the hands-on clock.
No matter who you are, where you live, how much money you have or what you do in your spare time, we each have an account that we are continually making withdrawals from and cannot make deposits.
Everyone in the world has a finite, fixed sum in this account, and still, most waste a significant portion of the capital available. Time is the currency in this account, and you are spending it with every minute of your existence.
The question you always have to ask yourself is, “Am I spending my investment wisely or not?” Here is something you already know: time will run out on you someday. Do your best to leave no unfinished business behind you.
Make your time What You Choose
Time is a concept developed to help us keep track of the days, it is entirely arbitrary as you can’t see it, touch it or feel it, but it is always with you. Each day is a block of time that you have the opportunity to mold into whatever you want.
There is a virtually unlimited possibility of thoughts and accomplishments that you can experience each day. You can decide to exercise, read, drive, bounce up and down mindlessly, or anything else you want to do.
If you choose to use your mind to think and your body to act, there is no telling what you might be able to accomplish in the hours you are awake.
Your Hour Glass is Running Out
what if we each had an hourglass that showed how much time we have left?
If we all had hourglasses that showed us how much time we had left, would today have more meaning if you knew it was going to be one of your last?
Personal perspective always affects the way we experience time. I have spent days with people who I love that have passed like an instant.
Conversely, I have spent minutes with people I didn’t enjoy, which seemed like days. Either way, it was my perception of the moment that affected how the time felt to me.
Your perception of time is the same, and knowledge is all attitude. If you have to go to work, it is up to you whether you enjoy that time and it passes quickly or if it is drudgery and the hands of time move slowly.
If you knew that you had five days left to live, how much would you enjoy each morning? Would you ever hit the snooze button? Would you look at your hourglass and the ever emptying sand and think, just seven more minutes of sleep? I don’t think anybody would.
Today’s Time is all you Have
Time is one commodity that becomes more and more valuable every day. I know that as I move through life there is no guarantee about tomorrow and even if I get every tomorrow
How much money would Steve Jobs have given for a little more time?
coming, the game is at best half over, and realistically closer to the end than that.
That does not depress me or worry me too much because the end will come whether I stress out about it or not.
I feel that if I enjoy every day, then I am doing everything I can to make the most of the time I have. Most of us will not have a warning that the end is here; it will just be here. Your hourglass will run out, and the game will be over.
Time Challenge To You
So My challenge to you is to make your time count. You don’t have to cure cancer, or build a skyscraper, or do anything complicated at all. All I ask you to do is think about what you are doing, enjoy the experience, and choose to be happy about the day that you are living.
Every day that you are alive, you can decide to be happy. That is a challenge, but I think you will find it to be a good one. Because in the end, it is your choice of what great things you are going to accomplish and how happy you are.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. – Leo Tolstoy
Time is money. – Benjamin Franklin
Time waits for no one. – Folklore
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. – William Shakespeare
Lost time is never found again. – Benjamin Franklin
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. – Theophrastus
As I was developing as a human being, the music of Pink Floyd entered my life. I was first influenced by the album the Dark Side of the Moon and the music was thought-provoking and resonated with my experiences in life. There wasn’t a lot of media that addressed the feelings facing the teenage mind. This music provided an explanation for the way I felt back then. The Wall was an experience that provided a visceral punch in the senses. It was so far removed from anything I had ever seen, it provided a paradigm shift in my thinking. I remember watching this movie in Brunswick, Maine and I remember the people I watched it with. D.H., E.C., and G.N.
Comfortably Numb– Suffering is a part of life. As young people, we aren’t quite sure of this. I think I was hoping the world would be a happy place all the time. But it isn’t and that is ok. Sometimes there is suffering to help you get to the next level of whatever you are experiencing in life. Sometimes the pain of suffering is too much for all people and we need to feel comfortably numb. Life ads experience and value is added by the hard times we face. Those are the valuable lessons of life. They are not learned in books but through experience and thoughtful reflection. Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone at home Come on now. I hear you’re feeling down. Well, I can ease your pain. Get you on your feet again.
Another Brick in the Wall (part 2)– There is no more ironic song to the story of my life. This is about the brainwashing that takes place in western culture. Our system is designed to produce producers and consumers, not thinkers and creators. I was listening to this while being brainwashed in that system. And I didn’t have any idea. A young mind is impressionable and moves in a thousand directions. It is easily influenced and manipulated. The problem has and will arise as the obvious reality of the world doesn’t match the story we are/were taught. Beliefs change, personally and as a society. Accept the change. We don’t need no education . We don’t need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. Teachers leave them kids alone. Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone. All in all, it’s just another brick in the wall. All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall.
Money– Iconic song which talks about greed which we all deal with to some degree. Our society labels us by how much money we make. In fact, when you meet someone, one of the first questions you ask is, what do you do for work? It allows them to be put into a box that you can understand and relate to. Yet, I would argue that has very little to do with who a person really is. There are very rich people who are terrible people and very poor people who possess the highest moral character. How much money you have has a lot to do with your beliefs surrounding it. You can have all the money in the world and it doesn’t guarantee you a thing. Money, it’s a crime. Share it fairly but don’t take a slice of my pie Money, so they say. Is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise It’s no surprise that they’re giving none away.
Time – Where does it go? Time is a concept that humans have created to mark our activities. It allows us to organize and for some determines the compensation for work performed. In reality, we are only going to have so long in this experience of life. As you age, the uncomfortable truth that it is going to end becomes more and more of a reality. This physical body will give out and the ride will be over. We hope we will have freedom and stability of thought until the end. But that is not the case for thousands of people. Either their bodies or their minds give out before the end. Making the most of the time that we have should be the highest priority in life. Enjoy every second you have. Don’t waste your time bitching and complaining. The ride is going to end, why dislike the experience so much. Focus on the good that is present in every moment, because it could be gone before you know it. And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking. Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time. Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines. Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way. The time is gone, the song is over. Thought I’d something more to say.
Wish You Were Here– A sentiment that everyone can relate to. No matter where you are in life there are people that you wish were around you more and sharing experiences with. From all of our past histories and stories, there are characters we miss, for all the elements they provided to our stories. Some moments were extremely happy, some were sad, but the shared experience is the thing that binds people. It provides the meaning of everything. Life brings people into your life and whisks them away as well. All provide a lesson and a spice to your life. I have been blessed in life to have experienced a lot of spice. And to all the people who provided them over the years, I wish you were here. We’re just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl. Year after year. Running over the same old ground. And how we found. The same old fears, Wish you were here.
Spin Doctors by Mike Martin
October 29, 2017- Nostalgic Music Month: Spin DoctorsMy brother Kevin Canders told me that I had hit the “bottom of the barrel” when announced to the family that I had decided to take a job selling vacuums. He was wrong.
This is an abbreviate post. It’s Sunday, and thanks to an emergency brake job, a skylight repair, two hockey practices, and a Halloween skating party. I have all of 15 minutes to write this, I could use an entire day.
My most productive period as a door to door vacuum cleaner salesman was from the spring to the fall of 1993. I was a “Van Master” working for Dan Wallace (DW)-a Kirby Vacuum Company legend. We had spent the spring recruiting college kids, out of work construction workers, and one trust fund baby.
Frank Brophy was smart and could answer just every Jeopardy question correctly. Dependency issue got the best of him, and by the time I had met him 1992, he was a shell of his former self. He didn’t have a driver’s license and starting selling Kirby’s with help from the Bangor, Maine public transit.
I think Frank worked for six months before he sold first Kirby, but by the fall of 1993, he was a door knocking machine and a staple on my Kirby sales van. Although several people accompanied Frank and me on our van, Josh Enman and Shawn Towne (after we drove to Milo, got Shawn out of bed, and force him to sell a Kirby to his neighbor on his very first demonstration) were the core of our sales crew.
We sold several Kirby’s daily on the days that worked, but we also never passed up the chance to (Blank) Off as DW would say. One of those days when we decide that there were better things to do, we took the Kirby van to a Spin Doctors concert in Portland. Maine. I must say, it was well worth missing out on the money that I would have made otherwise.
The Spin Doctors are a rock band from the USA that was formed in New York City. They are best known for two hit songs.
Spin Doctors – Two Princes – YouTube
This one, got a princely racket
That’s what I said, now
Got some big seal upon his jacket
Ain’t in his head, now
You marry him, your father will condone you
How ’bout that, now
You marry me, your father will disown you
He’ll eat his hat, now
Marry him or marry me
I’m the one that loves you baby can’t you see?
I ain’t got no future or a family tree
But I know what a prince and lover ought to be
I know what a prince and lover ought to be
Spin Doctors – Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong – YouTube
Little miss, little miss little miss can’t be wrong
Ain’t no body gonna bow no more when you sound your gong
Little miss, little miss little miss can’t be wrong
Whatcha go’n do to get into another one of these here
Rock ‘n’ roll songs
Please, have a great day, and if you have any questions, drop us a line and please partake in #OctoberNostalgicMusicMonth and while you are at it take a trip to Greenville, Maine-I understand the foliage is majestic this time of year! #visitGreenville
swift, unstoppable it goes, Through the canyons of existence, it carves, A reminder that all we cherish, time starves.
Of all the possessions we have, time is the most valuable. Each of us has an invisible hourglass in which the sands of our lives are flowing continually. Unfortunately, we can’t see how much sand we have left, and ours could run out at any moment. This fact should make people treasure every second. If you knew today was your last day, then what would you do? What would you say? Who would you want to spend your time with?
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