WHAT IS TIME ITS A PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

WHAT IS TIME 

ITS A PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

                                                                            HOW TO USE OUR TIME,

Each day is another gift and another chance to make a difference. Each day we live reduces the amount of time we have left in the world. None of us knows just how much is left. It could be just a few minutes to heart attack. It could be 2 hours to a car accident. It could be one mouth to a fatal sickness. It could be 40 days to the end of the world. Therefore it is important to use the time we have in the best way possible. To do so, we must first have clear goals in life. What is it that we are after? Where are we taking our life? What do I want to be and achieve today.

We should avoid leaning things half finished because we may never get to finish them. We should choose carefully what we do for we do not have time to do everything and anything. We should make the best use of each encounter because it may be the last. It may be the last chance to smile at the patent in the hospital bed. He may be dead tomorrow. It may be the last chance to show an act of kindness to a blind cripple you may never meet him again. It may the last chance you have to show care to the passenger seated next to you for he may be on his way to committing suicide. It may be the last time you greet you friend on the road. It may be the last time you are visiting a relative. It may be the last opportunity to tell the person who she meant to you. It may be the last chance to ask forgiveness. Do not let the sun set while you are still angry because there may be no tomorrow.

Of course eating is important but did you pause to calculate how much time we spend eating, breakfast might last about 30 minutes. Lunch will definitely last longer, say 45 minutes. We may have 15 minutes for afternoon tea and another 45 minutes for supper. That is 2 hours each day. We spend 2 full hours daily doing nothing but just eating. (2 ×366= 732) in one year we spend 732 hours eating 30.5 days eating , in 80 years we will have been eating for 2440 days or 6.5 years eating nonstop. During this time we are very attentive and have great time. No one is usually dozing. If we spend time preparing the food and washing up dishes it more than doubles the time we spend on food.

We are told that it is important to sleep in order to be healthy. 8 hours of sleep is one of third of the day. In 80 years we will have spent 26.5 years sleeping.

For religious people are required to have at least one hour of personal prayer each day. Many are too busy to do so. For those who do, the one hour is reduced. They spend about 10 minutes preparing to get into the mood of prayer. During prayer itself, distractions may take another 20 minutes, dozing may also grab another 10 minutes. In the end they have just 20 minutes spend in real prayer.

We spend 20 minutes of our day doing the most important single activity in our life, an activity that we all agree in non− negotiable. Yet we spend 6 times as much time daily in eating. We spend 24 times as much as sleeping. The rest of the day is filled with other activities, shopping, socializing, and internet. Whatever those activities are at the end of the day we spend 72 times more than time in other activities than we do in real prayer. It makes you wonder if what we call priority is in reality a priority. Perhaps we can see it by the fruits.