Time Is What You Make Of It

Life is [surely] what you make of it. Life is Time. Life is what you make of Time.

I have discovered that Time is malleable. We can shape it, twist it, and make it into many things. We can use these forms to realize our dreams and accomplish our goals. We need not feel helpless in the face of a clock, nor overwhelmed by a day-timer or intimidated by a calendar. These are unfounded fears born of wrong information and inadequate Human Technology.

Many people have been convinced that Time is an enemy that will, by nature, destroy us and subvert our plans. But I would like to suggest that Time is not our enemy and that rather - Time is our friend.

Time is a sacred and holy thing to me. It contains blessings beyond our wildest imaginings. It is that field in which a valuable treasure has been buried. It is one of the means of Success. It contains all of the potential for all things that will happen or might have happened.

If we can compose ourselves adequately to simply look at Time, we will discover that it is a gift. Our way of thinking about Time will determine what we are able to do with it.

I believe that it's benefit to merely think about Time. Thinking about things is an action that changes the substance of Being and reality. Immediately we devote energy to examining and understanding anything, we are better off. So with Time.

I have already outlined a number of the concepts involved in this precious thing – Time. Remember: years, months, weeks, hours, minutes, and seconds and microseconds. Add to this other notions- eons, millennia, ages, centuries, eternity and Moments.

To consider all of these divisions of Time helps achieve some kind of perspective. This helps organize the flow of Life: history, pre-history, personal history, the future.

Thus we are better enabled to understand our personal experience within the vast context of the flow of Time [“…like an ever flowing stream.”]. Time has no obvious limits so it's easy to get lost.

At the same time, if we consider our life in the broader context, troubles and worries shrink and become proportionate with the large tragedies of history: famine, war, pestilence. Considering an error is judgment at a given moment, or even for a year or more is often best seen in the context of an entire lifetime.

A failure to keep an appointment can be seen in the context of an all-encompassing Providence which will turn it to good purposes and results eventually. Life's like that.

These simple meditations alone can lend comfort to the human heart. And Comfort is one important component in true Success, which is that mystery we call Happiness.

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