Time is a tool, lets not abuse it.
Today is my birthday.
Well, for the next 5 minutes anyway. According to the rules society has set for our clocks and appropriate time zones my birthday ends in 5 minutes. Luckily the time zone I am currently in is the one which I was born.
If I were east of here a few hundred miles my birthday would be over already!
Birthdays are a beautiful thing. A fun celebration we have for each other and ourselves based upon the years, months, and days which we’ve designed our society to operate. A humanity wide piece of art.
Time is but a tool we use to assure ourselves of movement. We compare and contrast the moments of our lives in a near constant state of change.
Do we realize that time is a tool? We spend much of our lives enslaved by the concept of time. Spending a certain number of hours at work. Supposedly needing a certain number of hours of practice to be great at a skill. And comparing a number of years we’ve been alive in order to determine maturity before establishing a relationship.
Time, like many powerful tools we have in life, can be easily abused. We may find ourselves focusing too much on the amount of time we spend on an experience, instead of focusing on the actual experience.
What would life be like if time did not matter? Would we desire to experience anything, knowing we had the time to experience everything? Would we experience more, being freed from the limitations of time?
Whatever the answers may be, there are benefits to both sides. By using time as a tool, we can leverage our lives to create more in the time we have.
By letting go of our conception of time, we are able to experience things more deeply. Unconcerned by any constraints, we don’t worry about what may come next and instead involve ourselves singularly in an activity.
By balancing these two seemingly opposite viewpoints of time, we live to our utmost potential.
In terms of time, every year of my life is my best year. In terms outside of the constraints of time, I love my life.
Yesterday was my birthday after all!
