Wednesday, June 28, 2006

By a round of applause, how are you feeling?

Time is the only thing that you cannot put an actual price on. We try. We pay for things by the hour, day, week or month and get paid for the same amount of time. It is not real though. You cannot get that time, those moments back. Lost forever, and all we get is X dollars per hour. The greatest gift that we can ever give anyone, or get from anyone is time. There is no way to put a price tag on the time that someone gives us. Maybe the most important decision that we make everyday, ever minute, is how we spend that time? Who we spend it with? Too often we take for granted this simple, basic idea. Apply this idea to the material things that we give each other and it changes them. It's not just a sweater that your mother gives you; it is the time it took to earn that money, the time to shop for it, wrap it and give it to you. When we use that cliche about it being the thought that counts, it really is. Our lives are defined by how we choose to spend out time. Do not ever doubt that it is a choice. Every minute of every day. And so we try to cram in as much as possible into every minute. Then again, is there a right way or wrong way to spend out time? I guess we all decide that for ourselves, and probably only have issues when we let other people define what is and isn't a waste of our time.

For me, I regret none of the time that I have spent with my family, with my friends, any of the time that I spent laughing, dancing and enjoying life. I only regret one thing; all of the time that I have spent making my bed. I swear, how much time do I lose making it every morning? It just gets messy again. Every single day. Fuckin' bed.

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