Time. Now that is something isn’t it? We all have it…. at least… for some time.
Most people are pretty concerned with it. What time is this or that happening? How much time will this take? When was the last time you did that?
Time, time, time. We measure it. We kill it. We give it away. It always cracks me up, when some says… “Hey buddy. You got the time?” “Well of course I have the time. Everyone has the time. The question is… Time for WHAT?”
Time for what. Some people try to save it. Like it can be put in a little “Time Piggy Bank.”
There is an entire marketing blur of Time Savers. New and improved products to save us time. Again, I have to wonder… just a bit…. when someone says… “blah, blah, blah saved me five minutes.” And then they tell eight people how they saved five minutes…. only to have used an additional 40 minutes in the process of boasting about saving the time in the first place.
People spend a lot of time clipping coupons to buy time savers. Little bit of a quandary, yes?
But we have what we have. Using it well is a pretty dang big deal, I think. What do we want to fill our time with? Eating Cookie Dough Icecream with Peanut Butter Chocolate Fudge, or playing Yahtzee, or riding a roller coaster? Well, yes. In the case of most people…. we want our time to be happy. Good. Satisfying.
But one truth about life…. at least my life… is this. Happiness isn’t a non-stop-thing. Happiness comes in moments.
Moments of happiness….like a lot of other emotions…… pass before us all the time.
If we want to enjoy those happy moments…. it is truly up to each of us. If we can recognize them… when they are happening…. and soak them in…. we have it. Even for a minute.
They pop up… those experiences… and sometimes they feel boundless.
But… as with everything that hinges on time…. it changes. It passes. And turns into something else.
Yes…. it all changes… every moment. Exactly, when it is time.