Thinking about Time
Have you ever thought about time…how sometimes we have too little and sometimes we have too much?
Why is that I wonder? Why is it, when we need more, we have run out and when we have too much, we don’t know what to do with it?
Let’s think for a moment about a little baby. Do you think they think about time as they wait to be fed, changed or played with? Do babies “watch the clock” the way an older person sitting alone in their room watches the hands of the clock move ever so slowly; while they wait for the phone to ring, or for a long overdue visit by a son or daughter, or even as they wait for the postman to bring a letter from a friend that will never come. I wonder what they think about time, or do they?
Why as a kid did the minutes of my summer vacations go by in a blink of an eye and the minutes of my school days drag on and on? Why can’t we pick which minutes are going to be short and which will be long? Why can’t happy minutes be really long and sad minutes be really short? Why does it seem to be the opposite way around; happy minutes short and sad minutes long? Minutes don’t seem to have equal value. I wonder why?
I remember watching American football games with my husband. Those last two minutes of the game always took at least thirty minutes instead. How come they get to stop the clock to talk about plays and how they are going to play the game and we can’t stop the clock of our life? I could have used an opportunity to “stop the clock” from time to time while I got my life sorted out or had to make a crucial decision.
What if we could put our minutes on pause so we could savor a wonderful moment? Pause to savor the birth of a child, or a son’s soccer game, or to watch our little ballerina dance over and over. How great would it be if we could pause the minutes we were looking into the eyes of the person we adored, so they could just go on and on?
And how would it be if we could turn back the minutes of time and undo something that went wrong, so we could do it right the next time? Wouldn’t that be grand! Just think, to be able to erase all the mistakes we have made so we would have no regrets. Don’t you just hate it when you have said something mean and wish you could unsay it?
As I look back on my life, I sometimes wonder if I have used all the minutes I have been given wisely. But deep down inside, I know I haven’t. I hope I will use the minutes I will receive better than I have used the ones that have gone by. But deep down inside, I know I won’t. Old habits die hard…
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Dear Vanessa. I really like the way you express the feeling of time of the elderly and babies, especially the sentence" Do babies “watch the clock” the way an older person sitting alone in their room watches the hands of the clock move ever so slowly". The sense of watching the time passes away every day and cannot do what they want to do and waiting the things that it is not possible to know whether they will come or not are so tired, bored, sometimes it can be depression and desperation. I am scared of thinking about this. Anyways, every moment in our life is always valuable. I love to read this blog. Some points that you give are really interesting.
Hello,
Nice blog Vanessa, I enjoyed reading it because it's full of lots of important and interesting questions :) You are right in this sentence, '' how sometimes we have too little and sometimes we have too much? ... when we need more, we have run out and when we have too much, we don’t know what to do with it? '' that's true. And sure, '' The old habits die hard ''.
Have a nice time :D
Hi Marik, thanking you for reading my blog and adding a comment. That is my point. We all wish we could change time...but we can't. All we can really do I think is learn from it. I have seen "Click". Again, it is an interesting concept.. Thanks again for your comment.
Hello, Vanessa. The matter, you have come up with, has concerned majority of people all the time; but, owing to our inability to change even the least moment of the past, I think this concerning is meaningless. We just should use that time that we have the best as we can.
By the way, there is one film; its title is Click. If the matter of time and the use of it concerns you then you have to watch it :)
Yes... Vanessa...
I like Teaching job very much... You can be with the Kids, the younger generation always...and it makes u feel like u are in the Garden with full of flowers, no matter what the season is... No Politics, no nothing... Only Innocence... and also the satisfaction what we get by teaching them, growing them and grow with them is fabulous, which u never get in any other profession....
In my family, almost all of them are Teachers except me... and i might become a Teacher one day...who knows...
BTW thanks for ur suggestions...
H Sima, You are so right in your comment. We are all here to touch each others lives. And we do without realizing that. Let's just hope we touch them in the right way. Then we can look back on our lives and say, "I've lived a good life with the time I have been given." Thanks for reading and commenting.
Mickey, thanks for commenting on my blog. One of the most happiest memories I have as a teacher is this one. I was sitting in a restaurant in my hometown having lunch with a friend. I was not paying much attention to who else was in the restaurant. All of a sudden this young man walked up to my table. I looked at him but did not recognize him. I asked if I could help him. He said "Ms. Serra?" I was shocked. How did this person know my name. He continued, "you were my teacher 8 years ago at Gateway. I'm Mike ______." Now I remember Mike. He was a short little boy. I could not believe he was now the boy standing before me. He said, "We all think about you all the time, and wonder if you are ok." I said "Please tell them I am doing fine".
You never know as a teacher how you will touch someone's life. Being a teacher is never a waste of time.
Hi Bala, Please call me Vanessa, Van or Ness. Thank you. Bala, Thank you for reading my blog and make the wonderful comment that you did. We can all learn from time, its best kept secrets. I think one of times best secrets is not to waste what time you have in negative activities, like fighting and hurting one another which we all do. Some more than others. I am looking forward to reading some of your blogs. I am sure you have some wonderful ideas just waiting to pop on a page. Thanks again for reading and commenting.
Hi Noa, thanks for reading my blog and adding your wonderful comment. You are so right...we are who we are today, we have what we have, and we can do the things we can do today because we did not change the past. What if we had changed the past we might have made things worse when we were hoping to make things better. I think all we can really do with the past is learn from it and hopefully apply those lesson to our future. Thanks again fro reading and commenting.
Well.. How I wish that we can go back in time and undo certain decisions that we've made. Then, if we can do that, it means we are changing our future. So we're not going to experience things that we have and we're not going to be the person we're going to be. Don't you think if we could stop certain time and savour the moment, we would not savour them in future, we would not look them with fondness?
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