Monthly Archives: August 2006

“Sense” is something that gets thrown around so easily:

• Are you completely out of your senses?
• I knocked him senseless!
• Where is the sense in that?
• Sense and sensibility.
• Was that really sensible?

What about our 5 senses? Ok females have 6. If you don’t believe me then you have never been in a situation where you have had to try and pull the wool over her eyes or in layman’s terms, bullshit your way out of a situation. They just KNOW!! Its spooky! Anyway, getting back the regular human 5 senses… I’m pretty sure that every one of us have had a sit down moment where we think what it would be like to have lost one of our major 5 connections with the outside world and admire those that have lost one or more and still manage to live a normal life and make a great impact in this world. If not, now’s your chance, why don’t you take a few minutes and have that moment!

Try to imagine what it would be like with your world in complete darkness, or silence. What about not being able to smell or taste all the wonders that the world has to offer? What about never feeling the embrace from a loved one or a pat on the back when you have achieved greatness?

How often have your senses reminded you of times long forgotten? That sweet smell of candy floss that reminds you of the funfair when you were a child or the smell of a sweet perfume that you can instantly put a face to from a life long ago? The taste of a meal that reminds you of a first date? The hug from someone you have missed so terribly? The sound of a voice that instantly puts a smile on your face no matter how often you hear it. What about that day that you can look at someone and say “you really are a sight for sore eyes”.

Make sense? Isn’t it incredible what we take for granted?

There is either never enough or just too much of it. Does time control us or do we control time? Neither! Time management? That’s a load of bull. You cannot manage time. It will keep on its steady course no matter what you throw at it. The best we can hope to achieve is being able to manage ourselves sufficiently around time to complete what we set out to before its too late.

You always hear people complaining about time. There’s the hectic lifestyle: “I never have enough time!” “Why does time pass so quickly?” There’s the bored lifestyle: “Why does the time drag so slowly?” “I wish we could just speed time up”. There’s time getting used against you: “You have had MORE than enough time!” “What bloody time do you call this?” There’s the holiday time: “It was too short – There just wasn’t enough time do do everything”. And of course there is the up side to life: “What a fantastic time was had by everyone”.

The truth of the matter however is time doesn’t change. It just keeps on ticking. Tick tick tick. You cannot hide from it. You can borrow more from other tasks and you can certainly waste it but you cant turn it back. It’s how we choose you use it that can change the way we view it and that will in turn change our feelings towards it and change the effect that time has on us. Its all about perception. For example:

How long is 2 mins? 120 seconds. Doesn’t seem long does it? How long would 2 minutes feel in a speeding car with failed brakes or 2 minutes with a gun pointed at your head? That is instantly a 120 second eternity.

How long is 5 years? 157 680 000 seconds. Seems like a lifetime. How quickly would 5 years pass if you had only 6 years to live or achieve your ultimate goals? It would feel like a nano second. Ask someone who has just had an 80th birthday. Is a few years away from the ones you love in order to build a great future an eternity or a wonderful sacrifice?

Time is incredible and has captured the imagination of many fiction writers. Everyone, in all ages have wanted to view life in another time. Look forward to the future to see what will eventually become of us. Look back to see where we have come from and how we became what we are today? I wonder if time travel were actually possible, if we as human beings would learn from it and try and change our stubborn ways? I personally think not. Knowledge doubles every year and with this knowledge we all understand the drastic effects our “modern, civilised” age is doing to the planet. How advanced is that? We have incredibly smart people predicting the future based on knowledge from the past (effectively time travel) and it only paints a very bleak picture. Time is something that is not on our side. We are running out of it very fast.

Don’t waste time. Don’t waste other people’s time. Don’t live the Manyana Manyana lifestyle. Don’t put off until tomorrow what can be done today. Don’t hit the snooze button on the alarm. Don’t bitch about not having enough time. Don’t listen to me about what not to do about time because if you know me you will know that I’m sounding like an absolute hypocrite. If nothing else, enjoy your time. Its been set out for you now go and take advantage of it.

Cat Stevens-

I was once like you are now, and I know that it’s not easy,
To be calm when you’ve found something going on.
But take your time, think a lot,
Why, think of everything you’ve got.
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not