Out Of Time

  As much as I have written about the possibility of time~travel, I feel like I need to take a second and really think about what time truly means. Do we really appreciate the gift of time? Are we aware of just how precious and vital every second of every hour is to each of us?
   Certainly we all have schedules to keep every day and most of us begin our day with that interuptive, rude, loud alarm clock that blasts through the bedroom...time to wake up, dude...without so much as a, "please", in its chimes! How can something so small make us so annoyed, anyway? Such is life!
   For the most part, we don't think about time . It's one commodity that is usually taken for granted in many aspects of life. We often want to offer excuses in touchy situations as to why we `don't have time`to do what's asked of us. Regardless of who is doing the asking, be it family~member, friend or foe. Of course, our foes don't usually do much asking for favors.
   Time is linier. Our existence on the earth consists of seconds, minutes and hours, for the most part. When we throw in jobs, appointments, ballgames and sleep, there is much left over for anything else. Truth is, we each have the same amount of time..60 seconds in every hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 365 days in the year, not counting "leap year"'. Of course, you knew that already!
   So what am I saying here? Just this, that time is a very special gift for each one of us! We must use it wisely. It is a gift to be shared, to treasure and to promote!
In a very real sense, we can think of time as a present (no pun intended) and we
alone are the one who possesses it! The other guy doesn't own your time, he owns his! Now that we are more aware of this, what will we do with this most valuable commodity?
   Someone once said that "time once lost can never be recovered" and in a very practical sense, that is true! Within the realm of science, however, the possibility of traversing time will argue with the statement above. For those of us who are fans of science fiction, time travel is a `given`and it can manipulated! Maybe it isn't really fiction, after all. Your call on that!
   Whatever our lives bring we can take comfort in the fact that we all have just spent another moment in time together and that is worth everything! Use it or lose it is a very wise statement, I think, and today is "all we have". Let's make the most of it and thank God for this precious gift.