TIME IS NOT A RENEWABLE RESOURCE

or How To Convince Yourself To Get and/or Do That Thing

Death has no regard for convenience.

Health could care even less.

At least death just stops you. No more decisions.
Though it is brutally rude and happens without any concern for your plans for the ‘future’.

Health can trap you in a struggle and suffer buffet for days, weeks, or years.
It can look at your plans for the ‘future’ and say “Let’s make all of this… way harder. Actually, just for a larf, let’s make some of it impossible.”

I’ve always been acutely aware of my mortality but smug enough to think it’s still way off in distance. Most of us are like that… and hopefully we’re right.

I vividly remember my last night as a 17 year old thinking, I’ll never be 17 again.
Which was inconsequential really, but I felt it.

As I get older and watch those I care about age around me as well, I’ve become even more aware of the fact that time is a bag of gold coins that we get at birth and then start spending from immediately.

It’s a dark deep bag that we can’t see or reach the bottom of but every day we reach in, feel around, and if we’re lucky, pull one coin out and deposit it in the gumball machine of life. A gumball with ‘Monday’ or another day rolls out and we get on with it.

One day, we’re going to reach in to that bag and we won’t be able to find a coin.
Or it will keep slipping out of our grasp and we’ll have to struggle to grab it.

These days, this notion surrounds every money, work, or relationship decision I make.

Money is a renewable resource.
You can make more by working more or changing jobs.
You can even win more by buying a ticket at the corner store.

Time is not a renewable resource.
You cannot make more time.
There is no scratch ticket that will win you time.
Time is a bag of gold coins and you have no idea how many gold coins you have in there.
Could be 30,000. Could be 3.

My intent here isn’t to make you impulsive or fatalistic.
You don’t need to live like you believe you have no time left.
That bag may still be heaving with gold coins.
It just feels lighter the longer you live.

My intent is to make us all include Time as part of the equation in our decisions.
Maybe go on holiday with your family.
Maybe celebrate a little victory.
Maybe get that present for that person.
Maybe say those words to them.

If you’re lucky, you have to spend that gold coin anyway… so, spend it wisely.

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(Pictured: Author [left] poses with stunt double before pretending to be dead in short film with a bunch of young people because really when else is he going to get this chance?)

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