Yes, it’s the intro to the TV soap opera, but it’s also something to think about as well. There’s 1440 minutes in a day, and the trick is to make use of as many of those minutes as you can, because one day, you’ll run out of minutes, and that will be the end. Time is the most valuable thing you’ll ever have, and you can’t even save it, or buy more of it.
It’s amazing how much of our lives are governed by time… time to get up, time for work, coffee time, quitting time, bed time. I honestly don’t know how I could live without knowing what time it was, especially at my job, where everything is counted down to the second. If you’re playing a song that’s three minutes and eighteen seconds long, you better have something else ready at three minutes and nineteen seconds. You even have to time your bathroom breaks so that you get back in time.
You’ve heard the saying “time is money”, but in truth it really is. It’s true that wasting time could be also wasting money in some situations, but time is literally a currency. You trade your time in exchange for money each day when you go to work. Every day you go to work and give up precious minutes of your life in exchange for money so that you can buy things to make your life easier when you are spending that valuable time on yourself.
That’s why I think that people get so upset when their stuff is damaged or stolen. It’s not “just stuff” as some people like to say, as if it’s comforting. That stuff represents moments of your life that you have traded away… valuable minutes that you gave up in trade for this possession which is now possibly gone forever. That’s time that you could’ve spent with your family, or out enjoying as many of those valuable daily minutes as you possibly could.
I wish criminals would understand that when they steal something from someone, they aren’t just stealing that item, they’re also robbing someone of their time. There’s only 1440 minutes in a day, and we’re not guaranteed a specific number of days.
Now, I’m not trying to tell you that our desire to acquire things is a bad idea or that we need to stop buying things, because we all know that’s not going to happen. All I wanted to do was try to point out how valuable time really is, and maybe make you take a better look at how you spend yours. No one on their deathbed ever wants more stuff, just more time.
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