Albert Einstein once said: “Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing. Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.”
I often hear great people talk about how time is the most precious resource we have as human beings.
And, to be honest, I must disagree.
Let me explain.
If you take a minute to meditate on the subject of time, you start to realize that there never was and never will be anything else, in reality, than the present moment. Right this moment. This second.
NOW!
All else is an illusion. You live where you live. You wake up in a house, and you interact with the people in your life. And that is your reality.
I wake up where I wake up and interact with the people I interact with. You filter the present moment thru yourself. That self is influenced by all the experiences you ever had from the moment you were born up until now. And you call that reality.
My reality about life and everything around me is influenced by what I saw and understood from the moment I became conscious about myself.
You have your reality, and I have mine. And so do the other 7 billion people living with us on this planet right at this moment.
So what is reality? Wich, one of us is correct? The answer is simple. Reality is the sum of the perception of all of us who share the present moment.
We are all right, and the only thing we have in common is, you guessed it … NOW!
Social media, the news, commercials, that pretty girl at the bar … They all want your attention, not your time. Because they all know that if they get your attention, they automatically get your time.
Matthew 6:21, “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
The secret is that however you use your attention in the present moment, it will stack up mysteriously somewhere. “You reap what you sow.”
It is time for you to wake up and start to live an intentional life. Wake up, grab as many “nows” as possible, and use them wisely. Start sowing in the “nows” you have today what you would like to reap in the “nows” you will get tomorrow.
You don’t know when your last “now” will come, so use the ones you get wisely.
With love, yours truly, Cristian.