Ever heard the phrase, “There’s not enough Time”? Funny how in this day and age with technology rapidly improving time seems to be disappearing quicker. You would think that with everything we now have going for us we would be masters of free time. Want to get the latest c.d. from your favorite band or artist. No more running to the store, waiting in line, getting stuck in a traffic jam and all before you could get a good listen. Now all you have to do is go onto itunes and download, what does it take? About 5 minutes right, from start to finish. So that alone saves you about 15 minutes. How about your pictures? No more having to take your film in to get developed. Does anyone even still use film? Now it’s to where you can take a picture, upload, print and have your pictures instantly. That saves you some time as well right. So where is it? Why is it that we are constantly running from point A to point B? I once heard someone say that there is more time than life. Hmmm, more time than life huh. Think about it, no matter how many people come and go there is always time.

Still think you don’t have any time on your hands and trying to hit the snooze button a good three times before finally getting up? It’s not about how much time we have, it’s about how we manage it. I’ve come to find that when we finally find times on our hands with nothing to do we get so excited upon this discovery of nothingness and end up sleeping or IM’ing our time away. Think about it, the last time you had some free time on your hands what did you do? It might not have been all the time in the world but it was more than enough to do something you’ve been putting off for weeks. If we learn to manage our time and to make the most of the time we do have we’ll see that we have more than we thought.

A man once found a rich man down on his knees head bowed over crying over a lost jewel. The rich man is confronted by this man as he goes on to state that this man can always buy another. He is obviously in no need financially to be able to purchase another. Of all the jewels this man owns why would he be fussing over one lost one. The rich man continues to cry. He tells this man that this jewel was like no other, he could never replace it. It was unique, a diamond pendant he truly valued. It had one diamond in the center and was surrounded by 24 smaller diamonds. These 24 diamonds were surrounded by 60 even smaller diamonds. The man realizing the value of this jewel offers to help recover it but the rich man looks at him and says to him that no matter how hard he tries he will never get it back. You see the jewel was no jewel at all, but time. The diamond in the middle represented one day, the 24 diamonds surrounding it represented the hours in a day and the 60 outside diamonds represented the minutes in each hour. This rich man had been upset because he had lost a day of his life and was never going to get it back. We also need to treat our time with the same importance of a valuable jewel; we must use it wisely because we will never get it back.