Wasting Time

We say we waste time, but that is impossible.  We waste ourselves.  (Alice Bloch)

That puts it in a different light doesn’t it?  We are not wasting time, we are wasting ourselves. 

Ouch! 

Does this put couch potato weekends at risk?  Does Late Night with Jay or Conan drop in priority?  Does Twitter really need your traffic this afternoon?  Does your six-pack buddy really need you? 

And, what about all that time consuming worry? Do you worry about your kids, or the economy or your job?  Maybe you need to give up some of the worry, and go to work on your life. The point here is simple.  You have a certain number of moments left.  Will you use them well?  Will you choose to waste them? Do you play when you play?  Do you work when you work?  Do you love when you love? Are you alive? 

Rudyard Kipling said, “If you can fill the unforgiving minute; with 60 seconds worth of distance run; yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.”  Poetic overstatement perhaps… but he got it at a deep level.

Fight to live intensely.  You deserve it.