Day 9: Tick tock

“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.”

Dear reader,

A friend gave me a book for my birthday. It was pretty amazing though. The book was called “What the hell am I here for?” and every of its chapter signifies a part of a journey to God. Now, I’m not a religious extremist. I don’t honestly know if I really believe in God, even though I was born a Christian. But she really went out of her way and got me this, so I believed I should read through the book. And it actually helped. I can apply many stuffs that were written in there and generalize into my own life. I’ve been reading it everyday for the past two weeks or so. On the first day, I decided to create this blog as a reflection on the day I read. It was so, and it continued but now it’s to the point where the blog is a little off from the book. It’s now just a reflection on my life, my values, my beliefs, and my lessons that I’m learning. From the book and from my every life.

What am I trying to tell you here? That I convert myself into faith and religious superiority? No. That God’s lesson is life lesson? No. I have no idea why I’m telling you this. Honestly. There are so many level of meanings for me, and for you to take. What could this possibly tell you? Well, you just have to figure out.

Now, for today’s story.

Or number, I should say.

24.

Guess what significant about it?

Not yet? How about I give you two others number?

1440?

86400?

No?

Well, that’s exactly the amount of hours, or minutes, or seconds, you have in a day. My bad, not exactly since there’s 59 extra seconds each day, but you get the point.

Time is ticking.

Yes, this moment, when you’re reading this.

Time is the ultimate jury. It gives anyone and everyone the exact amount to do something. And people are losing time. People are losing money. Because time is the most needed resource for everything.

Spend it your way, but spend it efficiently, that is, of course, if you want to be more than what you are. If not, then close this page and start spending your time efficiently.

Let’s consider the consequence of doing the opposite. Say you wasted a minute everyday, and it could be easy as arguing with your mom about something you’re sure she’ll win. After a week, that’s 7 minutes. After a year, that’s 365 minutes. After 10 years, that’s 3650 minutes. After 50 years, that’s 18250 minutes, or, 304 hours, or 12 days. Might not seem that much, right?

It might not, but if might be the difference between getting a $5000 monthly wage and a $10000 monthly wage. Or, you would waste $1152 if you’re working at $12 hourly.

You can do all the calculation you want.

You can convince yourself it doesn’t matter.

All would waste another minute.

                                                                                                                        Truly,