What's Happening to Time? | Spirit Connection

In 2018 I published an article entitled, “Is time speeding up?” If you didn’t get to read it, please do, (click here) I think it certainly offers something to think about. And whether or not you believe that time is speeding up, or whether or not it’s actually true, doesn’t really matter. What matters is how we perceive our time to be. How we use our time, and what we spend our time focusing on.

I read an interesting quotation a while back and it said this : “The most valuable thing that you can give to anyone is time.” I’m reminded to tell you that this applies to yourself as well. So what do I mean by this? So often we find ourselves saying, I’d love to be able to learn to paint, meditate, start a scrap book, write a book, have lunch with my family more often, go on holiday, get involved in community work… but I can’t because I don’t have the time. And I have to ask the question : Is this really true? Or are we sometimes either just making excuses or just not planning our time properly.

We readily give into the things that mean so little. For instance, we’ll follow a facebook posting on something that made the news or something that happened to someone (who we possibly don’t even know), but we just have to see what everyone’s comments are. If we had to do an exercise and see how much time we spend on the internet, on facebook, instagram and twitter, we’ll probably be so shocked! There’s an advert that I read or heard just a few days ago that says, the average person checks their phone at least 150 times a day. Isn’t that just crazy! That probably equates to around 300 minutes per day at an average of 3 minutes at a time, which is around 5 hours a day! Can you imagine what you can do with 5 hours a day if you spent that time on yourself or giving back to your community – doing something that you love?

I highly recommend that we all re-evaluate how we spend our time. Re-evaluate what it is that we allocate our time to and ask ourselves the question : “how does this benefit me?” or “how does this benefit the people that I love?” And if you can’t truly give an honest answer or an answer that makes perfect 100% sense to you, then you know that you’re actually just wasting a whole lot of your precious time and it’s time to do something about it. Anything that you do that has no positive impact on your life is time that you’ll never get back and I promise you this, when you come out on the other side of your life, and by this I mean, when you finally start looking at the more senior you, you’ll find yourself regretting that you didn’t do whatever it is that you wanted to do, because you believed that you didn’t have the time. Eventually time runs out for all of us and the last thing we want to do is feel regretful because there’s no do-over, you don’t get to go back and do it again.

So love now while you have the time, laugh now while you have the time, live now while you have the time. Tomorrow will bring you more love and more laughter and more living and you’ll end up on the other side, saying well done me, I did it and I have no regrets!