Time
This is the only variable we truly cannot control. We cannot even predict it. We know more or less where we are, but we don’t know when we’ll leave.
Existence itself may be doubted, or even called into question. But time—that is not something we have forever. It will always exist. Or at least, that is our theoretical understanding.
But one thing is certain: we don’t have all the time in the world. We wait to start something… We’re always waiting for the “right time.”
We wait to change. We think we always have the chance to change tomorrow, or later on. And we don’t do it right away.
We wait to say what really matters. You don’t do it out of fear of jumping the gun.
You wait to live life to the fullest. You think tomorrow is guaranteed, and you put off until tomorrow the desire to make the most of the day—to do everything you set out to do.
Don’t waste your time waiting. Time doesn’t wait for you—or for anyone. We shouldn’t live every day as if it were our last, because we’d be overwhelmed by anxiety. But we must be fully aware that we may never see another sunrise—or another sunset. We may no longer have the chance to hug that friend or family member we only see on Christmas Eve or Thanksgiving.
I think there’s no better advice we can give one another than to make the most of the time we have. And while it’s important to wait at times, we should do so in a way that ensures the time we spend waiting isn’t merely a sum of seconds during which our minds and bodies are idle. Let the waiting be what silence should be: something dynamic, not just an absence of action or thought.
Let’s make the most of the opportunities that are within our reach right here and now, and that are available to us. Tomorrow we may still be here, but we may no longer be able to do what we were planning to do just a few moments ago.
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