How do you feel about the passage of time?
Time’s arrow flies one way. Each of our lives is headed in a similar direction. At some point, we will find ourselves at the finishing line.
I sincerely hope that that finishing line arrives much, much later rather than sooner, for each and every one of us.
What stands between each of us and that finishing line is a lifetime.
How do you feel about the passage of time?
Time will keep on slipping (into the future, as the song would have it*), no matter how we might feel about the pace at which the days and years fly from the calendar. The flower will grow, blossom, and eventually whither.
If you can, if it is remotely possible for you, it is worth taking a moment each day to appreciate the world that is around you at this moment, and your place in it. I sincerely hope that every day of your life will offer you something to appreciate. If reasons to smile seem in short supply, then I sincerely hope that brighter days await you, just around the corner.
Things are often so much better than they might first seem. It is sometimes just a matter of perspective.
Back in 2023, my good friend Dr Paul Taylor-Pitt shared a lovely and appreciative perspective on the passage of time (via an Instagram post, if I recall correctly):
“I love getting older. It’s a privilege.”
I happen to agree wholeheartedly on this. When I turned 50 a few years back, I wrote (in Gratitude):
“Today, I feel nothing but gratitude for the privilege of being alive to see this day, of all days. I am amazed to have made it this far. I am delighted to be here. For some reason I have always looked forward to being in my 50s. And now, at last, they are here.”
No matter your age, no matter what today might hold in store for you, I sincerely hope that it feels like a privilege for you to be here today.
Time’s arrow flies one way. But that doesn’t mean that our perspective on life has to flow just one way. On the same day in 2023 that I read those above words from Paul, I happened across the following words while out on a walk (strolling past a hard-hatted figure who holds up a different motto outside a local business each day):
“It takes a long time to become young.”
May you be nothing but kind today, to others and to yourself.
May today be nothing but kind to you and yours.
Footnotes
* The song in question being Fly like an eagle by the Steve Miller Band.
IMAGES
- Bluebell photograph by MJCarty, May 2023.
- Nelumbo nucifera bean of India via Wikimedia Commons.
- Nelumbo-nucifera-5- 1200 via Wikimedia Commons.via Wikimedia Commons.
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