What is time? Why must a day be 24 hours? Why not more, why not less?
Is time too long or too short? What is your take?
And can you define time?
Saint Augustine answered it this way a long time ago, “If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”
And Nikita Ivanovich Panin said, “In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.”
Think of it, there is probably some truth in that.
It has been said that for many of us, we live our lives running behind time, but we only reach it when we die of a heart attack or in a car accident rushing to be on time.
Others are so anxious of living the future that they forget to live the present, which is the only time that truly exists.
We all have equal time throughout the world. No one has more, no one has less. The difference lies in what each one of us does with our time.
We need to live each moment, savouring its content and acknowledging that each additional day we have is a gift from God.
Dale Carnegie had said this a long time ago, “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”
And Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his “Psalm of Life” wrote:
“Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act, - act in the living Present!
Heart within and God o'erhead.”
Yes, the advice is to look to this day and live well. Yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision but today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and tomorrow a vision of hope.
So help yourself to a truly well-lived day, today!
Cheers!
Let's listen to this lovely gospel song entitled "Whispering Hope" by the Chuck Wagon Gang (CWG)courtesy of "erastusbean". Hope you like it.
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