Time is a precious commodity, that all of us waste when we are young. When you are a child time means nothing . What your time consists of is finding some one to play with, run, or making out like your are a super hero. Time to a child is something Mama and Daddy talk about when they are running late for something. A child knows that it is time to eat, come in from playing, and take an awful bath when Mama comes out on the front porch and hollers your name. As a child there is no need to worry about what time it is, since you have no appointments or schedules to make.
When you start school time starts to have a different meaning. It means there is not enough time to play after school, you have to make time to do home work, get the chores taken care of, see if you can get dad to play a little ball, and get that awful nightly bath in before you go to bed. They start teaching you how to tell time in school , and stat telling you to use your time wisely.
Then we hit the teenage years and time takes on yet another meaning. This is the time girls discover boys and the boys discover how a little ole girl can make his mouth go dry, his hands become sweaty and he looses his voice. As a teenage girl there is never enough time to fix your hair just right or get the right pair of ear rings to go with what you are wearing today. There is not enough time to call your girl friend and tell her how the red headed boy had offered to carry your books, or he had actually touch you hand as he reached for the books. You are on the phone so much your dad threatens to have It removed if you don't stay off it so much.
The teenage boy is still trying to figure out what happened to him when he met that little brown haired girl from the other class. He had never really smelled anything quite like that. She looked so delicate standing in the hallway he just knew she would break if he touched her. He figured out right quick he was not as brave as he thought he was. But he dug down and mustered the courage to ask her if he could help her with the books she was carrying.
Then we graduate from high school and no one is going to tell us what to do. Our time belongs to us now and we can do what we want when we want. But the bubble bursts and we realize we have no time that we can really call our own. We have to be on time for work, catch a bus home, or try to make class on time.
Then we get married and time means an even different thing. We now have a spouse we have to make time for. They are in our lives all the time , from the time we wake up in the morning until we go to bed at night. The time with our spouses is a special time when we are bonding and becoming one.
In time we have children and now we have a whole new meaning of the word time. Our children demand a lot of our time in caring for them when they are little. Then as they get older it seems as though we have no time to our selves running them back and forth to school plays, ball games, and of course Little League Baseball. But the time flies and before we know it we have an empty house that suddenly went quiet when the kids left for school or got married.
Then comes the golden years when we finally realize what the true meaning of time means. We now take the time to see family and friends we have neglected for so long. It finally dawns on us that our time is rapidly coming to an end and there is nothing we can do about it. We look back and see where we wasted the most precious thing we have Time. As the old saying Time and Tides wait on no man. The things in life that use to bother us no longer matter now because we have learned that they were trivial and didn't amount to a hill of beans. Time has a way of making old enemies become dear friends because we can't remember why we were mad at each other to start with.
Don't forget to take the time to hug someone that is close to you and give the a helping hand . Never forget that you cannot change time but time will certainly change you hopefully for the better.
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