As Einstein told us, time is an illusion.
While we’ve all bought into the idea of a 24-hour day, and while the earth rotates on its axis creating daylight and darkness, time itself is not the linear ticking off of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years as we tend to see it.
I’m sure you’ve had experiences when you’re so engrossed in something that time seems to fly by or stuck doing something you dislike and time seemed to drag on and on.
In Western culture where there’s an emphasis on setting and reaching specific goals and milestones in our lives (schooling, career success, marriage, families…), we let time lead the progression.
But time is infinite.
What if we believed time was on our side, instead of something we have to race against with the constant underlying pressure that time will run out before we get it all done and we’ll be out of luck?
The fact is, time will run out before you get it all done.
You’re always expanding and wanting more therefore you’ll always want more time.
Consider this for a moment: What if you let go of the illusion of finite time and opened yourself to infinite time? What would change for you?
Would you do more out of inspiration versus obligation?
Would your stress level decrease?
Would you have less regrets?
Not one of us knows exactly how long we have on this planet. All we know is that, at this moment, it appears we have some more time.
This Groundhog Day existence we’ve all been living in during the pandemic has offered us an interesting perspective on time.
One of the gifts of this time was to shake us out of our to-the-minute scheduled lives into slowing down, living moment-by-moment and day-to-day allowing us, in many cases, to come back to ourselves. We were given the gift of time which before we never seemed to have enough of. Time to really “be” with ourselves and some of the important people in our lives. Time to explore new interests or rekindle old ones. Time to play more or not — our choice.
Time, like choice, is ever-available. The choice is how do you want to use the time you’ve been granted?
Another interesting thing about time is that it doesn’t diminish a desire in your heart.
Something you may have felt you didn’t have time for before or maybe missed the boat on still exists in the timelessness of your inner being where the only agenda is to move you toward happiness no matter how long it takes.
A heart’s desire has no expiry date.
There’s no limited-time warranty.
While how you want to bring your yearning, dream or desire to life may have changed as you’ve grown and matured, if you’re still here, you still have time to do it. Or perhaps a new desire has emerged in recent months. (You’re ever-expanding, remember?)
What does a happy heart look like for you right now, at this time, in this chapter of your life?
Tune into your heart and ask: What desire wants to be fulfilled now, at this time?
You need only the courage to seize the opportunity while the time you have left allows.
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