Sitting, Waiting, Wishing...

Time!

Time is a concept that people never truly realize all of its diversity. On one hand, time can be rewarding. Ask any terminally ill patient how glorious the gift of time can be. Then on the other hand, time can be burden. Just ask any of the millions of people everyday who are simply getting through each day. Waiting for something in their lives.

Waiting. That is what has me writing about this time parable. Waiting seems to be the common denominator in all aspects of my life these days. I feel as if I have been constantly waiting on time. I am waiting for the time that I see certain people. I am waiting for the time that school starts. I am waiting to turn 21(Don't ask about this one, it's very touchy). It seems that everything in my life for the past few days, weeks, and months has revolved around time and waiting.

Our entire lives revolve around time. We are only given so much of this precious gift. We can't make this gift last any longer or pass any slower. When I look at this, I guess it makes waiting for things seem entirely wasteful. While I, or everyone, sit and waits for certain milestones in our lives, we are constantly missing on life's hidden treasures that we experience in our daily journeys.

I once read a quote by Ursela K. LeGuin, that said this about journeys, "It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters, in the end". Now, for those of you who personally know me, I consider myself a fan of quotes that revolve around "life" and "daily" journeys. So why is it, that in my own life I fail to fulfill such a simple and inspirational ideas? Instead capitalizing on these quotes and seizing all of the experiences that occur along these journeys, I still find myself often waiting for specific events.

There is a Christian band that has a lyric that reads: The greatest thing God created was a new day. That quote has so many meanings that I can't imagine trying touch on all of them, but what an incredible quote. Everyday we have a new day. Everyday we have a new journey to embark on. Then, when all of our new days are compiled together, we have our lives. So why are waiting on anything?

No one knows how many of these glorious journeys or days each of us will be given. That's why it is important not to waste the concept of time. We have to stop looking and waiting for things in our future. There is no promise that we will ever even live to see things we wait for. At the same time, though, we have to be thankful for the time that we have already been granted to live, and the journey's that we have already been privileged with traveling.

Time is a very complex concept, and each person is responsible for utilizing their time to it's fullest extent. We are all making journey's with our time. When each of our days are compiled together at the end of lives, don't we want people to look back how we lived each of days individually and not just as one long life? Everyday we are given is an extension of our time, it is up to each of us to capitalize on the journey at hand each day. That is the true beauty of the complexity of time.