How You Spend Your Life Matters And Here is Why

Quote of the day: 

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. 
-Aristotle

First it was sleep, what we as humans worried about and maybe did not get enough of. "I wish I could get more sleep" people would often say when you ask about their well-being. Of course sleep is vital for you to function properly. The average person spends a third of their life sleeping. This is assuming that the average person sleeps for 8 hours -which is about one third of a day. Hold that thought. If the average lifespan is 75 years, then that would amount to around 25 years spent sleeping. This figure will change depending on the actual hours you do spend sleeping each day, sleep more and the years increase, and sleep less and the years spent sleeping decreases.

Secondly technology has become an addiction -but that's a story for another day. If we spend one third of our lives sleeping, that's exactly 300 months. So with just 600 months (again assuming our lifespan is 75 years) left, you go into education, you spend a number of years pursuing a living and career, eating, using the internet, talking on the phone, taking a shower, using the toilet, doing laundry, getting dressed, and so on and forth.  Each stage, any enterprise, every bit of what we do adds up daily, and additionally over time. We are a living statistic.

The continuity and progression of life must continue whether we chose to be a part of it or not. From early childhood to late adulthood, all your experiences within that hour glass of time must amount to something, each grain of sand as important as each drop of water in an ocean. As you reflect on all these weighty thoughts, here are a few more to add to your list:

1. How much time do you spend trying to change someone's mind or behaviour?
2. How much time do you spend being bitter about something someone did, somethings someone didn't do or something you don't have the will to change?
3. How much time do you spend holding on to the past?
4. How much time of your time do you waste doing things you don't like?
5. And when was the last time you had a good laugh or treated yourself to something amazing?

There are 1,440 minutes in each day. You will spend one third of that time sleeping. The rest is up to you to use as you wish. Wouldn't it be great to make a habit of letting go of things? In other words you become a child all over again -they tend to forgive and forget things quickly. Those seconds, minutes and days sure drift by so fast, but alas it would eventually add up one day.

Tick-tock.


Peace. Love. Light* 




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