Greetings, Earthlings,
Monday is just a few hours away. Ugh! I know, Mondays can be frustrating. Is it just me, or are these weekends starting to feel like thirty-minute lunch breaks? Well, I hope you had a great weekend. Whether great or not, it's over anyway. I think a part of growing up is reaching the point where Monday starts to feel like every other day of the week. As 6LACK rightly puts it in Inwood Hill Park, "Monday is starting to feel like Friday."
Tick, tock... Last week, I saw a man who seemed to have more time than I have ever had in my life. Okay, no need to start pondering theories of relativity in Physics. This man sold clocks for a living. Technically, he has more time than I do. Get it?
In secondary school, I was told, "Time is that with which events are described with reference to before and after," nothing more. Over the years, I have heard many sayings about time, including but not limited to "Time waits for no man" (I don't know about women), "Time flies" (I wonder which airline it uses), "Time no dey" (There's no time), and "Time Is Money." Please, how much does 8 am cost in your local currency? Or how much time can I purchase with a thousand Naira?
Time is a precious commodity, more desired than gold. And once you lose this slippery commodity, it slips into a dark abyss, never to return. Yet, many of us pay little heed to this precious commodity until it's too late. At that time, we end up biting our nails and wishing we had more time.
At the start of every day, we are handed a beautiful, priceless commodity: 24 hours. And it doesn't matter what you choose to do with it; the next day, you are given another 24 hours. This happens every day until your daily supply of 24 hours ends (which is when you die). Nobody gets an extra second, and no one can decide to use only 20 of the 24 hours to get 28 hours the next day. YOU ONLY GET 24 HOURS!
Even with this realization, we spend most of our time chasing the wrong things, with the wrong people, and even worse, listening to people's opinions about us or things that hold no water. I am no expert at keeping up with or managing time. But after going through Arnold Bennett's "How to Live on 24 Hours a Day," I have come to agree that there is always "spare" time for those of us who want to improve our lives.
Until next time, I hope you check out that book and discover what I have too.
My dad always spread out this quote "there's only 24 hours in a day" everytime the day sums up too fast and he has barely anything tangible to go to bed with
Gracias