How often do you realize “oh damn! I really am getting older” I think once or twice a month is an ideal number, anything beyond that, then there’s a problem. There’s a theory I put together to support that. When you’re doing something fun, like watching a movie, hanging out with friends, or getting work you love done, you rarely seem to worry about time.

It’s like time does not exist at all until you suddenly notice hours are gone already. It’s not that time changed its pace while you were living in the moment. You had become one with it, you somehow could control it.

That’s the same thing with age. It’s just time counted with fancy words like a decade or a golden jubilee. It’s basically seconds and minutes added together. A decade is about 87,600 hours. That drops drastically when you remove the average time you spend sleeping, roughly 30,000 hours in ten years.

Now think about the time you spend doing other stuff like cleaning, walking, exercising, and important stuff you have to do, like work. You have maybe less than half our original figure to live for you, to become one with time and be in the moment. If you are always worried about this, it means you think you are the constant, not the time.

Two things, you either keep living in the past, or you are anxious about the future. In the past, you probably never moved on from a certain time but guess what, time itself moved. I mean your time, which equals your age. In the future, you think you’re the constant, you also don’t seem to have enough time, and you’re always anxious.

Whereas, the ideal scenario is that you focus on every moment so that when you can think about your age, you have no regrets. The world’s standards do not bother you and you can think of it passively.

This is life’s gift to you every morning. The same sun rises and sets each day, but your knees take time out at thirty. Because time is constant, it will always be here. Even when you’re gone, you’re the one who’s moving.

If you could only see that it doesn’t matter what you have done, what you’re doing right now, or what you’re going to do; your time will always go by and it will be here when you run out of it.

So what’s it going to be? The past? The present? Or the future? It’s always your choice.

Song for the week – Hold me like you used to – Zoe Wees