Take Your Time

A lesson regarding life occurred to me like a light. It told me about few things that I must make for my own day and as well as sharing this thought to others. I can still clearly remember the first time I encountered this. I have leaped through the pages of the book a Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren and it said there that “each day, we should live our lives as if it’s our last day on this earth”. The reason behind this is that people will set their minds to accomplish satisfactorily their plans for their living. Now, as we come to our last topic in Developmental Psychology which is Death and Bereavement, this thought has been acknowledged once again. Often, we just don’t realize that every moment of our life is a precious one that once spent; it will never go back to us again.

There are some things that I realized how all of us are getting ourselves too preoccupied with the idea of laziness. We are stunned by procrastination, and in fact, this would just generate failure for all of us. An old friend has told me the difference between Time and Money, because Money can still go back to your hands no matter how you spent it. There will always be ways of looking for Money, but Time, no matter what degree of effort you exert on it, there’s no way of receiving it again. That is why the cliché stating that “time is gold” hits us like a speeding bullet. We are not able to feel the pain at first but after a while, we’ll just realize that we are bleeding. We should know enough of what to do with all our priorities. When we think that we have still so much time, we should also think that only very little of it remains as we waste it.  At one end of the rope remorse lies and it just keeps us from blaming each of ourselves. Often we waste opportunities to let people know how much we would want to show our affection for them. We believe in the idea that everything last forever but no it doesn’t. All things under the sun perish at the right time.

Time is an essence of our lives. It goes with us in every second and with every wink of an eye. The meaning that you give to death will reflect the meaning that you give to your life. This was stated by our professor, Dr. Alma G. Maranda. This is definitely true; we should be able to make our priorities worth for all our sacrifices, so that at the end we can proudly say that “life is not a struggle to be solved but a gift to be enjoyed”.