Time is such a crazy thing. Some days time seems to fly by, and other days it seems to crawl. When you have a lot to accomplish, time rushes past and makes it nearly impossible to get everything done. When you are waiting for someone or something, ten minutes can feel like an hour. If you don’t have much to do and are waiting for the day to end, time moves so slowly. If you are really busy, time magically seems to disappear. Sometimes you think that hours have passed and it’s only been fifteen minutes, but other times you take a break for five minutes and then realize an hour and a half have passed. It takes an eternity to reach your sixteenth birthday, and another eternity to reach twenty-one. Then you blink, and you’re on the backside of fifty! How something that seems to control our lives so much can be so unpredictable is quite difficult to understand.
Another strange thing about time is that we never really know how much time we have. We have no guarantee that we will still be alive ten minutes from now, but we also don’t have any reason to believe we won’t be alive ten years from now. One thing that seems to be for certain is that no matter how long we have, it will not be enough. When Betty White passed away recently, someone observed how special it was that she had lived almost one hundred years, but an entire nation was grieved that she died too soon. Whether you feel like you have plenty of time, or if the end of your time seems too near, you can be certain that time will move steadily on. No matter how badly you may want to, you cannot stop time from passing.
It has been said that time heals all wounds. That may be true, or perhaps it’s just that with the passage of time the wounds don’t hurt quite as much. Either that, or we become so accustomed to living with the pain that we become numb to it. Whatever the truth is, the passage of time does indeed help us overcome and move on from the hurts we have experienced. There is another popular saying that “this, too, shall pass”. This is a reminder that we all go through seasons of life and, just as winter eventually gives way to spring, we will eventually get through the current season. This can be an encouraging thought if you’ve experienced a tragedy, but can also be a sobering thought in the good times. It can give us hope to know that time will steadily pass if we are separated from a loved one for a period of time, such as a child going off to school or a loved one being on a military deployment. We can actually take comfort in knowing that time moves steadily on.
Since the nature of time is that it is constantly passing us by, it would behoove us to examine our actions. Is there something that you should be doing? Then don’t wait, for you may run out of time. Is it going to be an extra five-minute wait at the restaurant? Don’t stress about it. That time will pass too. If you have the choice of either visiting a loved one now or in two months, perhaps you should choose now since neither you nor they know when time will run out. It is a much better feeling to realize two months from now that you had plenty of time rather than to look back with regret because you ran out of time. Do what needs to be done while you have the time to do it. If there is something that you know you need to do, someone who you should call, a wrong you should make right, or an “I love you” that needs to be spoken, do it. It’s about time.
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