It causes the people, places and things we love to change, grow old, and die.
When you're four you aren't just four – you're four and a half or maybe almost five. You can't wait to get older. Be careful what you wish for. It takes a long time to go from 12 to 16 and almost no time at all to go from 50 to 54.
As we start the NCAA basketball tournament season, it's interesting to think about a basketball game and how the time goes. The last ten minutes of a hotly contested basketball game can be a lot of time. In a close game we might say, even with only a couple of minutes to go, “they still have a lot of time.”
It's all relative – ten minutes left in a game is a lot of time; but if someone says, “dinner will be ready in ten minutes” that sounds pretty quick.
The solution to this dilemma is to live in, and enjoy, the minutes and forget about the years. Make the time we have now our most precious moment.
It's not a good use of our time to live in the future – thinking about, or sometimes obsessing over what will happen later today, tomorrow, next month or next year. Not to say we shouldn't have a plan, but as they say, “if you want to make God laugh – tell him or her your plans.” In other words – we can't predict the future and often just when we think we are on a particular path something comes along to upset our best laid plans.
Each moment is precious; and if you have this one – be thankful. It's enough.
Peace
