The concept of time.
My 8th letter to you.
Time is a concept in your mind, but everything is happening now. Although the construct of time is to help us in the technology world, we tend to stress due to time. Often, we live so much in the past and anticipate the future; We forget to live in the moment. Living in the moment feels like a luxury we rarely experience while living in the moment is what is best to do.
Just think, if we didn’t have time to catch the bus or a meeting, how would we live? So even though time is precious for everyone and should be respected, we don’t need to stress ourselves when it comes to time. Neither living in the past nor the future is beneficial if we don’t do it moderately.
Time is such an illusion tricking us into rushing through life, thinking we need to reach our destination before running out of it. It either goes too fast when we enjoy something or moves slowly away when anticipating an event. It’s all because time construct that way feels rigid if we live with the norm of how society has been creating time to enforce our lives.
Every moment consists of seconds and minutes, yet we never fully remember the whole day. There’re always fragments in our memories of what people said and did or what we said and did. Usually, I will fondly recall how it felt and what was meaningful in those moments when looking back in the past. I’ve tried to live up to the norm of how I should spend time, but I gradually felt it restricted me and made my life rigid. I’m a rebel at heart, and once I feel limited or restricted, I will not let time dictate how I should live and go along with what most do. So for me, I live my life not by the norm but by my principles and values, which enforce how I want to spend my time.
I want to pave my path and creatively create time, but this doesn’t mean I don’t respect people’s time. I have spent time contemplating what “time” really means to me. Upon waking up one day, I get the idea that time is not something I need to give my focus to unless it’s essential to some degree that I need to follow. So I started to think, how do people perceive time? What did they do with time in the past when there was no concept of time, the clock? Didn’t they get up by sunrise and get to sleep by sunset? Between the time they are up, they will follow by their own time doing what’s most important to them. They didn’t divide time into minutes or hours. Well, I’m not sure how they lived their lives back then when it comes to time, but then again, the society we live in now makes us give significant focus on how time should be spent in our lives, so much that we forget that a moment could feel like forever and forever could feel like a moment.
I think I can respect time, but I can’t let it dictate my life. If I can spend the time, I can also save it. Priorities are the key to time; I guess what you make out of time is what life is all about.
Think about it, how do you want to prioritize your time, it’s up to you, and you do have a choice.
Sending you many blessings,
Amara T. Lam
