It is a funny thing, time. When you are waiting for something or someone, time crawls by, so slowly that you hear your hair growing. But once you are having a great time or need something to be done, then it takes a good leap and just gallops away, leaving a trail of dust behind.
Time can be our enemy or our best friend, and we all put different value to it. But we all have it the same: 24 hours a day, 7 days in a week, 52 weeks in a year - it is up to our own individual choices, what we plan to use it for.
I have become very familiar with time. When I am on the road, I get to spend quite amount of hours waiting - bus to leave, ferry to take off etc....
Sometimes it's just a short wait, goes effortlessly, without even noticing it.
And then there are these marathons of waiting, where you have nothing but time....hours after hours after hours....
First you read and listen music, and write. Time goes faster when you have something to eat and drink as well, at least it feels like that.
If there is luck, you might be able to use internet, watch movies and surf in the facebook etc....
But at some point you lose the track of time, you stare the floor tiles and count them so many times that your eyes are teary. You follow the other passengers, what they do and where they go, wondering about what kind of lives they are living and all those sort of things.
Then you take a look at the clock on the wall, just to realize that it is only five minutes more since last time you checked at it..
Snacks are gone, you carefully check your pulse just in case you have fell to an eternal sleep while waiting.
Nope, still alive, time for coffee....
And after that third cup, time for wee....if I walk slowly to the toilet, I may be able to spend a good 5 minutes on this trip.
Yes, the luxury of time 😉.
Sometimes it's good to be bored, it tests the patience. Not everybody has a lot of spare time to themselves, not enough to get bored at least.
There are people ,who are busy all the time, or so it seems. They go around like tiny ants, never stopping, they probably sleep their eyes open, so they don't miss anything. They keep going like there is no tomorrow.
But this is not a competition, how we each decide to use our time, nobody keeps the scores, nobody is titled to be a winner.
We just have to make the most of it,what we have gotten. We never know, when the sand has poured through the time glass, nobody has that chrystal ball.
So.....before our heart makes the last pump, before we take our last breath, let's celebrate the life and the time we have here - each and all of us, in the unique ways we choose to.
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