Time Block

It amazes me how we often pick a single day, a block in time and build a life time around it. We are very closely attached to time and on many occasions we use it to create value and even store value in it. Later on we visit that moment as if it was storage house of sorts from which we had to pick our most prized possessions, memories we call.

The newly married couple, the young business man that has just got a new business deal or even the young man that has just won the heart of his loved one, we all have a way of finding treasures in time. A year starts and ends, and while we make some sort of achievements and suffer some loses, when we look back we realise that we did was boxed in the block of that year.

A new year will start again and we shall welcome it, but we need to realise that the worth of time is found less in what we do, but in the lives we affect while that time was with us. The people that we shall hug in a day, the promises we shall make, the victories and losses ahead, shall be boxed in time but the truth is that their worth lies not in the time itself, but in the lives that they will eventually affect.

It then serves to say that as the year begins, let us focus less on what we are going to do, more on who we are going to affect. Everything will settle to a usual normal and then we shall begin to long for a new end, but when we focus on the people in the year and the ones that will benefit from our existence in the year, then we shall be of more effectiveness by the time a new end is here.

The point is, even the diary, should be an album, the watch should remind us of a birthday and a warm hug to give. As we throw ourselves away, as we begin to look to our ambitions, let us think of those that make life worth living, the very reasons our lives are one piece. We shall never miss a day, but the people that we could have loved in a day, we shall miss.

Live the life availed to you in each time block, but love the people, take time to know use time as a tool to be useful and not as a limiting factor. Grow with someone, let them know you and try to know them. When a new end is here again, you will look back and each date will be filled with a face smiling and a heart grateful.

Let our ambitions draw us closer to the people we have chosen to love and let us indeed make each time block a moment in the life of another. When our fear cloud our ability to place life over time and space, we need to dig much deeper in us and realise how much of us is left. The life that has run short of supplies is one unable to supply itself into others. The man that places space and time above life is one that has emptied himself over time and in space.

When we have passed, we shall realise that we were called, whether we responded or not will be to our realisation. The matters that hold our eyes should lead us to places of great satisfaction. When we wake in a bed alone, we should realise that the new dawn and use it to saw ourselves again and may be for once. Time is not all we have, life is and its not only our lives, but also the lives near and far from us. We need to realise that we can spread a life across great time and vast space. There are names that have been handed over to us, and deeds that have stayed with those that never lived in the same time zone with the doer.

The reward was never in a time well used, but in a life well used, well invested. So while it will be hard for me to coin new phrases, I pray that in time, you will find life over and that when life is passed, it will be well painted over time and space. We are here and it will be said of us that...................... please put your name.