Is anything really ever a waste of time? Yes you’re just sitting there and time is ticking by and you’re not getting anything done. You’re waiting in the waiting room and can’t seem to keep still. The clock keeps ticking and it seems like life is passing you by.

Why is it that if we’re not doing something every second of every hour, then it’s as if we’re either lazy, unproductive or wasting our time? How is my time being wasted?

It’s been given to me and I have the privileged of using it how I choose. Waiting is still much work. Being patient is not easy. When you got in to that relationship and realized that person wasn’t who you thought they were, you didn’t waste your time with them, you learned a lesson.

When you’re in a rush and someone tries to talk to you but you say you don’t have enough time, you actually did have the time but that person or problem or thing just wasn’t a priority for you at the moment.

We all have the same amount of time as the person next to us and the person in the country across the world from us.

We may believe that the simple things in life that we have to do or sit around for are wasting our time because it’s not happening fast enough for us in the way we would like. We all have our own clock, our own watch, our own time that we even wear it on our wrist everyday just so we can look down and know the time and how much or how little we have left. We get bummed when it’s daylights saving time and we have to spring our clock forward one hour or fall our clocks back one hour. How dare the universe mess up our sleeping cycles!

A mother has to calculate the time for all her kids, daycare drop off and pick up, homework, breakfast, lunch, dinner, bills, soccer games, dance class, date night with the hubby etc. She is constantly on the go and time is what she needs to get everything done.

It takes time to go to school from kindergarten to twelve grade then to college then to serious “adulting”(paying bills, getting a real job, living on your own). These things don’t happen overnight and take time to develop.

Why? Why does time have to take so long?

We need to grow. We need to mature. We need to suffer long because it produces endurance. It produces character. We may have little now but that little will make you work hard for your big dreams and you’ll appreciate it more when those dreams come true because you know the little that you came from.

Who you are right now is because of what you went through over time. Time caused you to learn how to read. Time caused you to learn the alphabet and numbers. Time did so much for you and all we can do is complain and whine about how we don’t have enough time. How what we want isn’t happening fast enough. How I’m wasting my time standing in this Starbucks line when all I ordered was a cup of water. Hello Barista, you are wasting my time because I gotta be somewhere and I gotta do something and don’t need to stand here until you finish everyone else’s drink because my drink will take two seconds to do and my time is being wasted.

When time is the one who got me the necessary possessions that I needed to even be able to go to the nearest Starbucks and stand in that very line. Time!

Time. We all need time.

Use that time. Love that time. Cherish that time.Before you know it will be over. It goes by faster then we really think.

A Time for Everything