There is no time to live

        We always complain about time. We say that it passes quickly, and we have no time to do what we want; the days are short and the nights long. Some gurus often say that we must wake up early and work hard to earn money and get ahead of others. If we sleep a lot, we will lose time to reach our goals. “God helps those who wake up early” is a mantra repeated by people over time, like a divine remake.
         Then, why doesn’t life give us more time to live?
         In a simple sense, to live is enough to be alive. But living also means enjoying life while we are here on this journey on Earth: to know people and places, read and learn about the world. Time is the executioner of life because it goes by and ignores what we want or wish for.
        In the end, life may be a journey through time, or we may stand still and watch time pass in front of us. Are there differences between those who walk quickly anywhere and those who stop in the middle of a road to see the world in action? Everyone chooses their own way of life, and there are no laws or regulations for this. Living is doing what we want, and life doesn’t care if we have time to do something or not.
       “Those who work don’t have time to earn money”. Is this phrase a paradox? Not really. Perhaps those who work too much may lose money because there is no time to recover the time lost. But there is a contradiction between time and how we set up our future. For instance, we may notice that, in general, we lose some time planning to the future. Can we imagine how much time we have lost organising our fantastic projects? And this lost time could have been a way to earn more money. So the paradox remains.
         It’s important to enjoy the day. If we see time passing and ignore it, it will be time wasted and underappreciated. Days are gifts that we receive. If we don’t unwrap them, our time goes by.
“We need to keep an eye on the cat while also watching the treat”, and time doesn’t care about it. We need time to organise the future, and at the same time, we cannot lose the joy of enjoying the moment, without forgetting the future, of course.
        It isn’t worth thinking about the future if we don’t experience the present, because our past is the basis for our future. When we prepare well in the here and now, and therefore in our past, this means that time will not pass by us, but we’ll pass by it.
       To enjoy the day, it is important to feel it intensely, because we won’t have time to experience everything that we imagine. The present is good for organising our future based on valid projects. We need to dream less and not waste the days, to live in them from the start.

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