Blog 781 – 09.21.2017
Plenty Of Time Or Not Much At All

Albert Eisenstein, one of arguably the greatest minds of the twentieth century, postulated that time is relative. If so, she is often a wicked sister or bad brother mister. People seem to always complain about too much time on their hands or more often too little. We marvel at how time seems to crawl when we are young and seems to fly faster and faster as we age. I heard a TV host remark recently that he and his panel were all over sixty and that in the United States we often seem fixated on youth. He went on to say that he is happier now than he has ever been in his life. Another of the guests remarked “Fewer days to live, no time for all the drama.” I whispered, “Amen.”

Youth is for so many way too full of dramas, and traumas. Oh, there is fun too, passion, excitement, and energy but so much of that it seems is wasted on the drama. I think, most all older people if they could change anything about their lives that they would not have wasted so much time on fretting over the small stuff and most if not all of that drama is really small and unimportant stuff in the big scheme of things.

Time, it is said, waits for no man (or woman) but if we cannot slow it down perhaps we could learn to make better use of it. I am reminded of a fine bovine joke about an old bull and a young bull. I will leave out my favorite word so as not to offend those who do not appreciate it as much as I do and substitute the little word “do” in its place:

“An old bull and a young bull were walking along a ridge and spied a herd of cows in the pasture below. The young bull says to the old bull, “Let’s run down there a do a couple of those cows. The old bull says to the young bull, “Let’s walk down there and do them all.”

Is that not so like youth always in a hurry and exciting about doing one thing or another when with just a bit of calm and patience and a lot less stress and mess we could do it all. Whether we have a lot of time left or not much at all the important thing is not to count the moments but to make the moments count. Living each one not stressed out about the last or the next. Focusing on and finding “full-fill-meant” in every moment is the true secret to a happy and abundant life. I close with my personal mantra:

“I am so grateful that everything I could ever want or need is already mine and coming to me at just the right time in just the right way from my loving at infinite source.”

Whether you believe God to be above it all or really your higher self inside you, the Psalmist words can still ring true, “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.” What time is it? Oh, yeah, it is party time for them that choose.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White