If You Have Love, You Have Time
š¤ Stop fighting time and start living fully
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. Thatās a year. (I know this thanks to that song from the musical Rent.) And as abstract a concept as time is, it sure does affect us in interesting ways.
We speak of time flying by, of never having enough. Sometimes, we say it crawls or even stands still. Then it runs out.
A few months ago, as I sat in reflection on the morning of my 39th birthday, the clock in my mind ticked louder than ever. Staring toward 40, my goals and aspirations seemed to pour out like sand in a hyper-speed hourglass.
Am I wasting time? Is it too late to reach that? Why didnāt I prioritize this sooner?
Iām sure youāve been there. Time hovers over you like a threat. If we arenāt careful, this fear will either riddle us with anxiety or lull us into complacency (or both).
Thatās why I find solace and motivation in these words from Henry Van Dyke:
āTime is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.ā
Van Dyke reminds us that time isnāt fixed. Itās shaped by our state of being.
Waiting freezes it. Fear accelerates it. Grief weighs it down. Joy compresses it into fleeting moments. But love? Love changes everything.
Love transforms time from something we measure into something we live.
The Shift
When weāre fully present in loveālove for others, for life, for purposeātime becomes irrelevant. Itās no longer about minutes or hours but the depth of connection in a single, eternal moment.
The real question isnāt, āHow much time do I have?ā but, āHow can I bring more love into what I have right now?ā
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