Musing: Time is a friend to none
Purpose - ultimately is purpose not that which we most strive to find? Life is not merely about listlessly drifting in the calm eddies. It is about carefully scouting for the rapids ahead, and planning the best path through which to pass between the boulders, turbulent currents, and dashing white froth surrounding us.
Life is hectic. Sometimes too much, other times too little. In either event, we are challenged. It is our responsibility to square our shoulders and choose. Like the silent, indomitable pull of a black hole on all the light and matter within its reach, we must move. We cannot afford idle stillness, or pointless expenditures of energy. We only have so much time - and so careful choices must be made. Decisions must be considered and deliberate but with due haste.
Too often our time seems consumed by the Leviathan of obligations and responsibilities we are faced with in our lives. Whether it's family, friends, work, play, or any of the countless little mundane tasks that must be completed within the routine of each day, we seem to spend altogether too much of our time in caught in our own cyclical routines.
Those taxes on our time, however unavoidable they may be, seem to perpetually and inexorably gnaw deeply into that time which we have designed for the endeavors of our fancy. It is when we are at our most consumed, that we need to pause and assess, asking the most divining of questions. This is when we must delve deeply, and with a focused lens, redefine our purpose.
So here we are. Each of us has chosen to spend some measure of our time here on WA, pursuing an elusive dream that we fervently hope will bring us close to the culmination of our purpose. Why we are here is less about what financial goals we are striving to attain as raw financial liquidity. Nay, those financial goals are the representation of each of our ability to leverage that financial net gain into the one commodity that no currency can ever purchase. Time. Time is the currency of purpose. Time is the one equity that we must all spend wisely. For as we each know, once spent, it can never be regained.
On the wise use of time. I've spent about twenty-odd minutes rambling about time. Truthfully, I've accomplished little and less to achieve the goals that I've set for the construction of the Viridi Project website. I haven't edited a single page, or posted a single blog. I've managed to make a tiny dent in the formatting and with my simplistic hand managed to stumble a tiny, stuttering step towards building the site that I hope will drive my dream forward.
So ultimately, have I used my time wisely? Perhaps not. Yet, perhaps I have. I am ever more inspired. I am reminded that my dream will require careful and diligent planning. I have paused to assess my present situation, come to the realization that I must crawl before I walk, walk before I run, and run before I sprint. But no matter what I do, I must move forward, one step at a time.
Therefore, friends, take heart! Time may be the most precious commodity known to man or beast. It may be finite, and our accounting of it may be ever accosted by life and living day to day. But being here, and moving forward, however slowly or hastily that may be in each of our cases, is the key.
Square my shoulders. Assess the ground beneath my feet, the sun on my face, the clouds on the horizon, and the sweet scent of spring in the air. Plot my course and adjust my heading for the days and weeks to come. Re-dedicate myself to the dream that is a vision of my purpose, and step forward.
Step forward. Step lively, ever, and always, forward.
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Tempus non expectat virum et aestus. (Time and tide wait for no man.)
P.S. Apologies if my Latin is rough.
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Thanks, Bob. I am hoping to put a new roof on a friend's house, but the weather simply won't cooperate!
Best,
Aaron
Good post, thanks for sharing.
We all have the same amount of time each day, it is how we use it that matters.
Thanks
Darren
Thanks, Darren. Time is so valuable, and how we spend it is far more important than most of us (myself included) take into consideration.
Time is something that very few of us have enough of, and we probably all have moments in the day where we don't use our time wisely.
But I think you said it perfectly when you said, "I must crawl before I walk, walk before I run, and run before I sprint. But no matter what I do, I must move forward, one step at a time."
As long as we're making the effort to keep moving forward, we'll reach our goals. Thanks for a great post!
Thanks!
I'm glad it resonated for you. I always seem to be running between things, and it gets hard to keep tabs on where everything is and should be.
But sometimes I just say - well, it will be what it will be, and as long as I achieve some distance run, so much the better.
Thanks again,
Aaron
I am so glad I have a philosopher for a husband. I appreciate your thoughts here on time and your humorous realization that you could be wasting time while writing about time. Many of us here have that problem. We may spend time writing a WA post instead of working on our websites. I have done this more times than I can count.
On the other hand, without a place to record our progress, see other's progress and get encouragement along the way, many may not have lasted here long enough to be successful. So, therefore, the time spent on musing is probably a good investment in time after all.
That is such a good motto, about time Aaron, that question you posted about time affects us all, have we used our gift wisely.
We can any of us just live it one step at a time, hopefully, we are, using our time effectively.
Thank you for sharing your reflections and motivations.
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Well said Aaron!
Time, or lack thereof, is the age old problem. I try to use it wisely, but with 20/20 hindsight I often see where I could have done things differently.
But even tiny steps forward are progress!
KyleAnn
Thank you!
I understand that hindsight is so glaring in what we realize we could have done better, or differently. But, as I always remind myself - I wouldn't be the person I am without the path I've taken and the people in it.
Tiny steps forward are often the best! They mean we're enjoying the trip!
I'm so glad that this post is resonating for people. Thanks again!
Aaron