Time

Ernest Hemingway said, "Time is the least thing we have of."  And he was right.  There is so much more we want to see, to celebrate, to do.  So many places to go, so much to enjoy, to feel, to read, to talk about, to participate in, to encounter.  Our frustration is only compounded by the numerous unimportant, dumb things that steal our minutes and siphon off the signficance of our hours.  We have this wonderful gift of 16-18 waking hours every day.  Since "time if the least thing we have of" and since there is no way we're going to escape all the stupid time-traps that are a part of our earthly existence package (like 6 months of your life sitting at stop lights or 18 months trying to find our keys), it would seem to me we have 2 choices.  We can fuss and whine about our individual "time problems" and lack of it, or we can take the time that we have and spend it wisely.  I mean REALLY WISELY, with our priorities in the right order.  If many of us continue the pattern that has comprised most of our adult years we can find ourselves mumbling to ourselves in the twilight years wondering how we could have stayed so busy yet accomplished so little.  I cannot help but smile these days when I hear, "I just don't have the time to do that" or "where did that week go?"  Maybe Hemingway wasn't right after all.  You and I have more time than we realize...once we get our priority ducks in a row!!

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[mike]

So Mick Jagger was right? Time is on our side. I'm glad something out of pop culture in the 70's was right...