Remember when you were a kid and years seemed long? I think each middle school year felt more like 18 months than 9 months. And what about being 15 and waiting a full year until you were 16 and able to get your driver’s license?!
For me, time started to speed up once I was in college. The four years I spent in Athens, GA seemed to go by in a flash. I remember the summer after my sophomore year thinking I would be a working “adult” in just two years. Those two years went by in two months! I blinked my eyes and was 30. Turned around and I was 50. Now, entering my 60s, I want to slow down time but not slow down. But how do we do that? What can motivate us to get out of the ruts we all seem to fall into? Try treating your time like money.
Each morning, the “bank of life” credits each of us with 86,400 seconds and every night it writes off the unused and uninvest amount that remains. There’s no balance carried over. No overdrafts are allowed. Each day there’s a new account opened for you with the same balance, and every night the records of that day are burned. If you fail to use the deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. The account forces you to live in the present, on only today’s deposits. To get the most of your health and happiness you must invest it. Treasure every single moment you have and spend your time bettering your life and the lives around you. It is never the case of us not having enough time to do things, but the case of whether we want to do them and choose to invest our time in them.
So, if you want your life to slow down instead of speed up, do new things, visit new places, meet new people. Remember, time waits for no one.
