***image1***I’m currently going through one of the most confusing times of my life. Oh, I’m not contemplating a new career or going through a mid-life crisis, that’s long gone. I’m talking about Daylight Savings Time! It’s confusing, isn’t it? Hey, I’m a fairly smart guy! I understand what the words “spring forward” mean. It’s the concept I have trouble with. I can never figure out if I gain or lose an hour. It may not seem important to you now, but it will soon. The older you get, the more every hour counts!
Time is the one commodity we never have enough of. Or so we think. If we can tell the sun to rise an hour later, why can’t we change our entire time system? Since “there are never enough hours in the day,” why don’t we fix it by decreasing the number of minutes in an hour to 30? That would give us twice as many hours a day! Surely that would be enough! Instead of working five days a week, we’d only work 2.5 days! What we could do with all that extra time! Isn’t that the premise behind Daylight Savings Time? To give us more time to do what we want to do, instead of what we have to do, while it’s daylight? Maybe the problem isn’t about time, but about what we choose to do with the time we have.
Albert Einstein theorized time is relative. I don’t profess to understand his theory, but someone once explained to me if you could travel fast enough, time would stop. In fact, you’d start getting younger … if you’re fast enough! Maybe that’s what we’re all trying to do, work so fast we’ll have more time not to. Are you confused yet?
I studied with a professor who said he didn’t believe in time. He said it was all a matter of priorities. I tend to agree. You see, we all have the same amount of daylight. We really can’t save it. It moves on with or without us. We can’t control time. What we can control is what we do during our time. It really is our choice. The great philosopher Will Rogers put it this way, “Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
I once had a philosophical conversation with God. I asked, “What’s a million years like to you?” God said, “To me a million years is like a second.” “What’s a million dollars like?” I then asked. “A million dollars is like a penny.” God replied. Trying to outsmart God I asked, “Then may I have a penny?” God said, “Sure, just a second.” See, it’s all relative!
Do you, at this very moment, know what time it is? If you don’t, it won’t take you long to find out, will it? Can you, in the next 10 minutes, figure out what’s really important to you and how to do that? That’s a little tougher. It may take you 10 hours to answer!
It’s easy to get hung up on busy-ness. We tend to direct our efforts toward work. Which, if you tried to answer the question I just asked about what’s important to you, was not your number one answer.
Most of us would make work a priority. Many of us would make it our highest priority. After all, we rationalize; we depend on our work to support our families. But isn’t it amazing that none of us has enough time to do all our work? And we have even less time for our families? Of course, there are always outside forces that influence our choices of what’s important, but it really does come down to our own personal decisions.
The writer of Ecclesiastes said that “there is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven.” Maybe we don’t need to change our clocks. Maybe we need to change our view of what we make a priority. We enjoy meaningful lives when we can accomplish our work and still make time for those we love. Maybe it’s our coworkers and bosses that we love most. Okay, that may be a stretch.
Time is a confusing concept to me. Often, trying to figure out what’s really important is just as confusing. But, you know, when I sit still long enough to think about what matters most to me, the light comes on and I know exactly what I should do when. I don’t need a clock to help me. My confusion subsides very quickly.
Maybe it isn’t about time, but about what I value. Maybe this is too deep to think about right now. But when will I have the time to think about it? I guess I now have an extra hour to ponder bigger issues.
But now, I’m really going to confuse myself and try changing the clock on my VCR.
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***image1***I’m currently going through one of the most confusing times of my life. Oh, I’m not contemplating a new career or going through a mid-life crisis, that’s long gone. I’m talking about Daylight Savings Time! It’s confusing, isn’t it? Hey, I’m a fairly smart guy! I understand what the words “spring forward” mean. It’s the concept I have trouble with. I can never figure out if I gain or lose an hour. It may not seem important to you now, but it will soon. The older you get, the more every hour counts!
Time is the one commodity we never have enough of. Or so we think. If we can tell the sun to rise an hour later, why can’t we change our entire time system? Since “there are never enough hours in the day,” why don’t we fix it by decreasing the number of minutes in an hour to 30? That would give us twice as many hours a day! Surely that would be enough! Instead of working five days a week, we’d only work 2.5 days! What we could do with all that extra time! Isn’t that the premise behind Daylight Savings Time? To give us more time to do what we want to do, instead of what we have to do, while it’s daylight? Maybe the problem isn’t about time, but about what we choose to do with the time we have.
Albert Einstein theorized time is relative. I don’t profess to understand his theory, but someone once explained to me if you could travel fast enough, time would stop. In fact, you’d start getting younger … if you’re fast enough! Maybe that’s what we’re all trying to do, work so fast we’ll have more time not to. Are you confused yet?
I studied with a professor who said he didn’t believe in time. He said it was all a matter of priorities. I tend to agree. You see, we all have the same amount of daylight. We really can’t save it. It moves on with or without us. We can’t control time. What we can control is what we do during our time. It really is our choice. The great philosopher Will Rogers put it this way, “Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
I once had a philosophical conversation with God. I asked, “What’s a million years like to you?” God said, “To me a million years is like a second.” “What’s a million dollars like?” I then asked. “A million dollars is like a penny.” God replied. Trying to outsmart God I asked, “Then may I have a penny?” God said, “Sure, just a second.” See, it’s all relative!
Do you, at this very moment, know what time it is? If you don’t, it won’t take you long to find out, will it? Can you, in the next 10 minutes, figure out what’s really important to you and how to do that? That’s a little tougher. It may take you 10 hours to answer!
It’s easy to get hung up on busy-ness. We tend to direct our efforts toward work. Which, if you tried to answer the question I just asked about what’s important to you, was not your number one answer.
Most of us would make work a priority. Many of us would make it our highest priority. After all, we rationalize; we depend on our work to support our families. But isn’t it amazing that none of us has enough time to do all our work? And we have even less time for our families? Of course, there are always outside forces that influence our choices of what’s important, but it really does come down to our own personal decisions.
The writer of Ecclesiastes said that “there is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven.” Maybe we don’t need to change our clocks. Maybe we need to change our view of what we make a priority. We enjoy meaningful lives when we can accomplish our work and still make time for those we love. Maybe it’s our coworkers and bosses that we love most. Okay, that may be a stretch.
Time is a confusing concept to me. Often, trying to figure out what’s really important is just as confusing. But, you know, when I sit still long enough to think about what matters most to me, the light comes on and I know exactly what I should do when. I don’t need a clock to help me. My confusion subsides very quickly.
Maybe it isn’t about time, but about what I value. Maybe this is too deep to think about right now. But when will I have the time to think about it? I guess I now have an extra hour to ponder bigger issues.
But now, I’m really going to confuse myself and try changing the clock on my VCR.