Jeremy C Kester

There is an uncomfortable truth that many of us are confronted with when speaking about our dreams or desires: it is that what is important is what we spend our time doing. Taken another way, it means that if you aren’t taking the time to commit to actions around a dream or desire, then it obviously isn’t important — no matter how much you say otherwise.

Writing. I say it’s important, right? Right? Yet, particularly of late, I am spending less and less time even trying to write. It’s there, always in the background as something that I should do. However, the actions are never done. Can it be important if we only think about doing it all the time? Unfortunately not.

Time is a resource that speaks more of what is meaningful than anything else. In society today, we are masters at wasting our own time, even when we can confidently negotiate saving any and all other resources. We’re better at saving money and spotting deals than we are at specifying how and where our time is best spent. If anything, it is how different tech companies are so easily able to hack our attention to such a degree. It isn’t necessarily that they have some magic formulation that gives them so much power over our psyche… it’s more like we let them have that first step into the door and we act cavalier about their presence — then they handle the rest.

Realistically, it is such a fleeting feeling time is. It can drag for what seems like forever only to then slip right by as if it was never really there. Time abounds for the things that we don’t need in our life, yet it appears to vanish for what is important. But that is the point, is it not?

It behaves this way because it is not time that behaves in any way, but us. Time is what we make it to be. If we do not stop to appreciate it while it is in front of us, it will be forever gone before we understand such. Stopping the waste of time — of doing those things that aren’t important and giving away the time to things that don’t really matter — is possible. We simply have to start using the time we have left.

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