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By Ayesha A. Grant--June 24, 2002
There is a saying:"Every lost thing can be regained. The lost game can be rewon. But the time which has passed away, it is useless to hope for its return." Time plays a part in every aspect of everyones life. It is perhaps one of the most valuable of treasures, and often the most misused and abused of them. A passage of time carries us through a year, a month, a week, a day, an hour, a minute, and into a second to reveal and conceal our life works, or perhaps the lack thereof.
There are a great number of people who recite the tale of being lost in time.. However, to be lost in time comes at the expense of being lost to reality. When one is lost in time they have lost the conscious effort of accountability, the right hand to time. Of a major magnitude "time is a sword; if you will not cut it, it will cut you." So then why is so much time "wasted?" When wasted implies other than what time represents. Worst is it to misuse time within your own caliber, however, worst yet is it to wrongfully use the time engaged by others. Duties are many while time is short, it waits on no one. But by contrast, time presents us with the grand opportunity to take advantage; to accomplish and to succeed in making our mark upon the world. It may act as our closes friend or fiercest adversary.
We are taught of the essence of time even before we are born through the calculations of when we are expected to enter the world. We grow up while being measured on a scale of time tables as to what is and what should be. At school and at work we are given deadlines and it is at that point when some can analytically say they have been lost in time.
Whose time is whose? The terms "not on your time" and "your on my time are commonly used by people, particularly in industrialized nations where time is additive to everything. It is the difference between life and death and all else that is sandwiched in between. In this process people have the easy entrée to becoming the masters of their own personal time warps, which creates habits of a habitual nature that may have negative consequences in the long run.
When man thinks about his existence and contemplates over his past life to count the months and the years that have flown by, he is unable to give much time to this sort of thinking because he cant have the correct estimate of his timings. There then becomes a point in life that realization hits, and it is at that point where one realizes the lack of accountability held in the decisions made.
Going back to the basics, the top dog to time and accountability is trust. In definition we get that trust is firm reliance on integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing. Personified, trust is like a parent to both time and accountability. It is like a guiding force for how each element is to be operated-being that they as with many things are given in trust. It is only an honest move that they get played out as such.
How we spend time, how accountability displays an art in it, and how we allow trust to integrate them bring out other characteristics of who we are. Respect for ourselves and others, care, confidence, patience, etc. When these aspects are recognized, the task of getting more done in less time becomes easier. Deadlines are able to be made as well as met because priorities have been set and recognized. Learning to balance competing demands for your time by the use of techniques to leverage your time and effectiveness takes on meaning. When it comes down to it, everyone is aiming to conquer procrastination-something that does nothing but increases our effectiveness to become lost in time.
Time articulates on who we are. By virtue of birth we have it within us to continue rightfully selfish in fulfilling objectives in life, so long as it does not conflict with anybody else traveling the many routes in the passage of time.
"The Road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it."
--Charles DeLint
"With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown."
--Chinese proverb
"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him."
--Golo Mann
Spend Your Time Wisely.
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