Why Time is not on Your Side.

We all want it to pass so quickly. When I was kid back in Lenki, Wabage Enga Province, I grew up there but I’m from Pakate Mand, Murip, Kandep, Enga Province. all we want to do is be grownups; and dream of owning my own Laptop, Sports car, Travel all over the world. Now I’m in my 30s and realise time I have grown up to fast I have achieved few of personal goals and more yet to achieve, adding new goals in to my bucket list. My day always say time is very important I though he was crazy now I realise that I was crazy to realise how important time is.

I always sleep 2am to 3am and wake up at 6 am. Now I come to realise that time chase down the minutes, hours and years until we’re old enough to get our license, graduate, drink, move out and move on.

Then in my twenties and I just can’t wait to be taken seriously. Can’t wait to buy our first Car, laptop, smart, Phone, Dates, throw away money on red ropes and bottle service and I got so many Depts without realising my own downfall, Now I’m in slavery of my own decision making and it will take me pay for the next 5 years and more depts of my depts and I’m still living under depts. I thought me a very good lesion and now I fully understand what is time.

We envision our future selves, successful, secure and rich, always rich. But when we’re finally there, finally rich, successful and established, we’ll only be wondering where all the time went.

Your wealth won’t seem as good now that you can’t enjoy it the way you once imagined in your twenties. Your apartment seems empty without all the minutes, hours and years to fill it with. Those trips you waited to take don’t seem as great with grey hair and a speeding clock by your side. Suddenly, you’re not so sure you should have wasted all that time asking it to speed up.

Our parents always tell us that life goes by in the blink of an eye. Our grandparents tell us it’s over before we know it. They tell us to cherish our youth, enjoy it while it lasts, because it will be gone before you realize the scarcity of it.

Many of us have yet to hit that critical moment when we look back and realize there’s more time behind us than there will ever be in front of us. We have yet to lament over it, wishing we had slowed down. We have yet to find out too late that time is worth more than money. Time is worth more than VIP lounges, corner offices and 18-hour work days. And your time is worth more than anything. It’s worth more than days spent stressing and agonizing, it’s worth more than bad nights in and worse nights out. It’s worth more than sleeping the day away or refusing to acknowledge another sunrise.

The older you get, the more you realize time isn’t on your side. It’s the boy you chased away only to realize he’s the only one who matters and now it’s too late. It’s the girl you ignored until you realized her beauty and it was too late. It’s the deceiving, silent enemy in our lives that you can either learn to control or give in to. However you decide to treat it, just know it’s never on your side:

It Won’t Slow Down So You Can Catch Up

Time has no patience for the weak or the slow. It doesn’t care if you want to spend a week watching Netflix and eating Lays, it just won’t come back for you. It doesn’t have patience, tolerance or sympathy for those who can’t keep up or don’t know how to use it without regrets.

There’s Never More When You Need It

There are no extras, no hand outs and definitely no bonuses. Time is like that strict teacher who will never round you up a point, even a half point. It will never help you find the answers or let you cheat off it, because it’s really just cheating you.

It Doesn’t Care If You’re Running Out

Time has no remorse. It doesn’t care if you’re young, old, lived a full life or hardly lived at all. It will cut you short whenever it pleases and has no shame in giving you little warning.

It Doesn’t Care How Much Money You Have

It doesn’t matter how rich you are or how much money you make, you can never get the time back you wasted. Time has no preference for the rich, beautiful or the intelligent. It has an odd way of reminding you that it doesn’t care if you’re rich or poor, it will get you either way.

It Sneaks Up On You When You Least Expect It

Like that stalker in high school you couldn’t get rid of, time is always lurking around. It seems to just hang there, never leaving the corner of your mind. And when you’re not thinking about it, not realizing it’s there anymore, it comes up behind you and you realize it’s never going to leave you alone.

It Never Warns You When You’re Running Low

Your time could stop at any moment. Time doesn’t slow down because you’re running out. It doesn’t stop so you can appreciate the moment or give you more time to do everything you wanted to do, but it especially doesn’t give you warning when it’s about to be too late.

It Makes You Think You Have An Unlimited Amount

When you’re young, time seems infinite. It feels like you can waste days on end and it won’t even make a dent. It makes you believe that old age is a fate that will never happen and will forever be on the side of the young.

It Likes To Play Games With You

It loves to slow down at work and speed up at play. It hides when you need it and stabs you in the back when you think you’re ahead of it. It doesn’t give hints, clues or warnings, and always makes sure you know it’s around when you’d rather not be aware.

It Won’t Give You A Break Because You’re Sick

There is never enough time to get over the flu and when you have to use your sick days to cover your aching joints, time seems to be the most unaccountable friend you have. You’ll never understand why 24 hours isn’t enough time to heal yourself, but is always enough time to just about ruin your life.

It Always Goes Faster On Vacation

Why is it that a week on vacation never feels like a week? It’s like the second you get on the plane, there’s a warp and days become minutes as you find yourself wishing for one of the few times in your over-worked life that it would just slow the f*ck down.

It Always Has A Price

You can’t pay to get more, but it always feels like you’re giving up something for it. You can’t be in two places at once, can’t stay up all night long, can’t spend a year traveling and that same year working. Time always demands a sacrifice, and it’s the things you give it and the things you refuse to pay that determine the worth of your time.

 

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