The Concept of Time

Time is not made. Time is not found. Time is used. You are given time and it is up to you to use it. You are given a life and within that life you’re given years, within those years you’re given months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds. Ultimately you’re given only seconds in increments, constantly. In other words you’re given time through the form of seconds, every second you’re given a unit of time.

You don’t go out and find time and make time, it’s already given to you. There’s nothing you need to do to acquire time, it’s a gift from life. However, there’s no one there to look after time for you, or to overlook it. It’s entirely up to you to use the time you’re given. You may have some form of guide to assist you in managing time, but in the end time is something that you must use yourself. By use it is not meant in its usual context ‘to employ’ but in the sense that you must ‘occupy’. You must occupy time you’re given and use it to perform actions.

The choice is always up to you and you have the utmost freedom to control that moment in time however way you wish to. It’s yours and you can use it. But be aware that once used (or unused) there is no taking it back. That’s the concept of time. You cannot rewind time, you can either dispose of time or you can simply use it. By the time you read ‘this’ word, you will have already used up that moment in time. Was it worth it? Reading that probably wasn’t, but you might have learnt an important lesson on the concept of time, then in that case it was.

Time is a universal measure, every body is given time as long as they are alive. It is uniform for everyone and a second for you will be a second for everyone else. You cannot manipulate or change that, not yet at least. Therefore in that sense you are not disadvantaged, you are on a levelled playing field in that regard.

Nobody is perfect and no one uses time perfectly. But time can be used wisely. The efficient use of time cannot be taught or adopted. The ability to use time wisely is a subjective idea, based on your own beliefs of efficiency, so the idea of using time wisely to you may not be the same as Bill Gate’s idea of using time wisely, or your best friend’s idea of using time wisely. Everyone has a different perception on time efficiency and this is normal. However, nobody but yourself can decide how efficiently you are using time because it is a subjective matter. Over time you may acquire a greater understanding of time itself, and that’s how you learn but it’s something that only you can learn yourself.

However, although it is given to you it will not be that way forever. Think of yourself as a car and time being the mileage that you drive. A car does not necessarily have an expiry date but there will come a day that the car will not be able to go another mile. There will be days that the car will get into accidents, days that it will have trouble starting up but those are only hiccups. Your body also gets into accidents and could possibly not start up (for example; a coma). You must take care of your body the same way you must take care of your car so that it continues to function. Over time though it may start to decline in performance, the same way your body will decline in performance as you one day become physically weaker as you age late into your life. So your body will only be capable of going so far, time will only be given until your body goes that far. Take care of your body so that you are given time and can use that time for as long as possible.

The concept of time may be difficult to grasp, even though it is a simple matter but once you grasp the concept it will help you just that little bit extra to manage time and use it more efficiently. The ultimate idea regarding time is that it is constantly ticking, it does not stop and wait for you and it does not come back – once it’s gone, it’s gone. It’s up to you to use that time to do what ever it is that you need, want, should, would, or like to do.