We can stop time

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Time will pass, every second, every minute, every hour, every day, month, year, lifetime.

We have no way of physically stopping that passing of time. Except how we chose to use that time and then we can make it feel that we have stopped time.

The more you do, that does not mean being a busy for the sake of it, I mean activity wise, I mean spending time on what matters. So if we live our lives, if we read, walk, run, spend time with people, create our best ‘art’, sing, dance, paint, write or whatever it is that we love doing.

If we stop, pause, hesitate, and get trapped in the cycle of fear and end up not doing, then time and life passes quickly, as we are more aware of time. We also feel the regret of wasting time.

We can make time feel like it has stopped by doing what we love, by spending time with people who matter and by not being conscious of time passing. We are so happy in what we are doing that time does not matter anymore.

The more we are in the flow of what we are doing, when we are so engrossed in things, time seems to stop.

If you want to stop being a slave to time, stop regretting wasting it, then be busy with life, with what you love and with the people you love.

After all, it is not the amount of time that matters, it is how quickly it passes and what you do with whatever time you have.

It’s all a bonus

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If you start each day accepting that the past has gone, now is all we have, as the future may or may not happen. Then if you tell yourself that you have everything that you need, a home (well for most of us), some food in the fridge, some money in the bank, clothes on our back. We’ve probably got a job, someone who we love, children, friends and maybe a cat or a dog even.

OK, so we might not have absolutely everything, very few have. Then again we don’t need everything. All we need is acceptance of what we have and to choose to be happy with that.

If we start each day by saying ‘I have everything I need, I am going to focus on what I have, not what I don’t’.

Then anything else in life is all a bonus. It’s amazing how good each day can be with that mindset.

Every step of life is all a bonus because one day the journey will end. It’s just a question of how we look at each step.