How many minutes are in a day? There are 1440 of them. How many minutes in a week? How about 10,080. Seems like a lot of minutes doesn’t it. How many minutes do we waste on dumb, insignificant stuff that has no real meaning or bearing in our lives. I’d say millions. And yet we let minutes slip by with no regard thinking there is just an infinite supply of them. If you had one week to live, on day to live, how precious would those minutes be? So many minutes, so many experiences, so many possibilities slipping though time one minute at a click. And we think nothing of it until the last minute is struck. I fail at this every day. I fail at my writing, putting it off week after week, even knowing that it’s something I love to do. I get angry at myself for being lazy, procrastinating, being negligent of my precious time. I am aware of it and yet I do it anyways. WHY? I believe it’s due to a constant battle of unconscious mind vs. conscious mind. And the conscious mind is bombarded every single day with 1000’s upon 1000’s of thoughts, process, distractions, squirrels. We battle against a world that holds us in bondage and most don’t even realize it.
What is that bondage? Media, technology, religious and social upbringing, geographical environment, just to name a few. We “buy into” all these things around us so easily, without even realizing it. Most do this without truly thinking. Those I classify as walking dead. Aimlessly going through the motions and having no true understanding of anything around them, just mindless souls walking in their temporary flesh tents doing nothing but adding to the fuel of the trash heap. Those with some awareness are struggling, trying to crawl out, trying to understand, trying to make a difference. But the battle is real and it’s intense. Life can be taken, and life can be given all within the confines of a minute. Now that’s powerful. That means just “one minute” is incredibly powerful and can change a person’s life very drastically. What a person does in that small, seemingly unimportant time of their lives has a ripple effect that reaches far beyond what they could ever imagine. Life and death on a grand scale is living in just a minute at a time.
I am aging what seems to be faster and faster. The years go by in a blink of an eye and here I sit thinking about all my wasted time. Wasted time doing nothing, wasted time being stupid, wasted time not giving, not loving, not being a part of the journey but just decaying away as the minutes slip by minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day and year after year. ALL time I can’t get back. It’s gone, slipped through my fingers into nothingness. I could, and still can mind you, build long lasting experiences and roots for others on the journey so that they may become aware and not waste too much precious time. We are all human and have such great potential and also great travesty. We are a selfish species, and we tend to do the same dumb occurrences over and over throughout history. But again, life comes down to the very individual and what they do with their time. Time to destroy, or time to build up. Time to live the journey or time to be inconsequential. Time to fly or time to die. That is the choice we all get to make, all within a minute. Make your minutes count because one minute could change everything.
To See Or Not To See 