Time, an irreplaceable gift so graciously bestowed upon the hands of mankind. Yet we humans are so keen on wasting it. It's because we have too much of it that we fail to see just how important it is. Who ever says that he has all the time in the world is a fool. Time will never be enough.
We humans waste so much time on superficial things like vanity and wealth. We try so much to make our lives perfect by achieving success when clearly, our view of what perfection really is is completely blurry. We think that once we're rich or famous, we'll be happy. That's why we idolize celebrities and billionaires so much. We imitate them and aspire to be just like them. So we waste time fighting each other just to see who attains a status that's higher than everyone else's. And once a certain status is reached, we spend a lot more time showing off everything we have, making others feel bad about themselves, or jealous of what we have. No wonder we make more enemies. Then, the paranoia sinks in. We start thinking that everyone's out to get us. We begin building fences to keep everyone away, attempting to protect everything that we've worked so hard for. While we do so, we do not realize that we've spent all our resources on the barricades we've built that we have nothing left to protect. We go back to where we started, the cycle begins again. Benjamin Franklin once said "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of." With all the time we've wasted, we've also wasted so much of our lives. Let's all think back to how much time we've spent arguing instead of making peace, or destroying a life when we could've helped rebuild someone else's. Let's think about it, and we'll realize that we should also start thinking about what we're gonna do with the little time we all have left.
However,with all these in our heads, it's also wrong to think that we're all out of time. If people who think they have all the time in the world are fools, people who believe they don't have time at all are just lazy. We've always had the power to control time, not the other way around. Truth be told, we can make time for anything. We just have to have the initiative to do so. We just have to think.
Time is an illusion. By the time we've finished blinking, it would've already come and gone. We don't have too much of it, nor do we lack any. We have just enough, so make it count.
We humans waste so much time on superficial things like vanity and wealth. We try so much to make our lives perfect by achieving success when clearly, our view of what perfection really is is completely blurry. We think that once we're rich or famous, we'll be happy. That's why we idolize celebrities and billionaires so much. We imitate them and aspire to be just like them. So we waste time fighting each other just to see who attains a status that's higher than everyone else's. And once a certain status is reached, we spend a lot more time showing off everything we have, making others feel bad about themselves, or jealous of what we have. No wonder we make more enemies. Then, the paranoia sinks in. We start thinking that everyone's out to get us. We begin building fences to keep everyone away, attempting to protect everything that we've worked so hard for. While we do so, we do not realize that we've spent all our resources on the barricades we've built that we have nothing left to protect. We go back to where we started, the cycle begins again. Benjamin Franklin once said "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of." With all the time we've wasted, we've also wasted so much of our lives. Let's all think back to how much time we've spent arguing instead of making peace, or destroying a life when we could've helped rebuild someone else's. Let's think about it, and we'll realize that we should also start thinking about what we're gonna do with the little time we all have left.
However,with all these in our heads, it's also wrong to think that we're all out of time. If people who think they have all the time in the world are fools, people who believe they don't have time at all are just lazy. We've always had the power to control time, not the other way around. Truth be told, we can make time for anything. We just have to have the initiative to do so. We just have to think.
Time is an illusion. By the time we've finished blinking, it would've already come and gone. We don't have too much of it, nor do we lack any. We have just enough, so make it count.
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That's an excellent text!!! One of the best I've ever read.
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