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Time Bandits and Counting the Days
By karen | October 2, 2007
“well let’s see, that would be 31 days plus 30 days plus 16 days, about 77 days”
“okay”
August 26, 2007–”Mom, how many days until Halloween?”
“Hmmm, well that would be 31 plus 30 plus 5, about 66 days”
“okay”
September 5–”How many days……?
September 21–”How many days…..?
September 28—”How many days until Halloween?
“about 33”
“Wow, not too long now, Mom!”
And so it goes…….the “how many days” questions…..I’m anticipating the Christmas question around about November 1st, just as soon as that Halloween excitement has passed. Actually for Christmas, I’m still a big participator in counting those days, I never quite got over that excitement! Let me see….“how many days is it till Christmas?”
If you ever get the misconceived notion in your head that time is static and everybody has the same amount of time in a day, then try living with young children for awhile. You will soon learn that Time is perceptual.
Time only exists according to the perception that you give it.
Sure, time is the way that we measure the rotation of the Earth. It separates the days from the nights and the seasons from each other. But the flow of time is what we experience and the flow of time happens according to our own perceptions.
Everybody has had the days when time just seemed to fly by. So much to do, so little time. Sometimes it’s that there is never enough time to complete the work. The entire day is a struggle. Or sometimes it’s when we are having so much fun and it’s just over way too soon. Ah, is it that time already?
And everybody has had those times when the hours just dragged on and you look at the clock after what seems to be an eternity, surely an hour or at the least a half hour has passed and you look and you find out the truth—-5 minutes. That’s it, just 5 minutes!
How does this happen?
But it does happen. It happens to everyone of us. The value of an hour changes every day, every moment, every second. The value of an hour changes based upon what we are doing, thinking, imagining, creating.
I have come to a new realization about time. Like many people these days, I have filled up my time with this and that., much of it valuable and important in my life, much of it urgent and anxious. But with all of this learning about deliberately creating my own life, it has come to my attention that I have unconsciously created a “lack of time”.
I have had the bad habit of saying and thinking and worst of all feeling like “I just don’t have the time”. Often that thought is accompanied by a sense of dread, anxiety and overwhelm. “I just don’t have time” and as I say that, think it and feel it, that is exactly what I am creating—Not enough time!
But what is the truth? Well, if there is something that totally has my attention and I am enjoying myself the time expands. Put a great book in front of me and all my excuses about “not enough time” go right out the door. Now it may be true that other things do not get done while I am reading a great book, but the time to read the book is there for me. I make the time.
And there are many things that I make the time to do. I make the time to play with my kids. I make the time to spend with my husband. I make the time to knit. I make the time to watch “Two and a Half Men” on TV on Monday nights and during the busy summer I made the time to watch every single episode of “Big Love”. Neither one of those activities will lead me to anything worthwhile or productive but I feel good about the time I spend with those activities because laughing, relaxing and enjoying things always goes a long ways towards my productivity!
The fact is that if I truly want to do something the time is always there. It’s the stuff I don’t really want to do that I have a hard time finding the time for!
So all of that anxiety and overwhelm that I feel with that excuse “I just don’t have time” is self-inflicted.
It is something that I could avoid if I just gave up that excuse and told the truth. The truth is more often the fact that my own goals and my own dreams and my own Inner Being are calling me to do something else. And the things I don’t have time for are just not part of my connection to myself.
So, guess I’ll have to come up with a different excuse! Cause I just blew that one to shreds!
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October 2nd, 2007 at 10:22 am
And here I thought I was going to see a review of the movie Time Bandits.
Seriously, to know what we do with time is often a matter of what we want rather than the limits of time is a great realization.
Have a fun Halloween.
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:31 am
The English language is really interesting in terms of how it approaches time. We take time, spend time, make time, have time, etc. If you combine it with the “limited resources” mentality of our culture it’s not really surprising that we’re cognitively programmed to think of time as a commodity.
I try to include time in my affirmations of abundance. “I have everything I need, always” includes the time to do everything I want to do. When I’m in the flow with this idea I’ve found that there *is* always enough time in the day.
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:49 am
No Rick, haven’t seen that movie! “I haven’t had time!” hehe! (not really, I’ll have to check it out and see if I want to make time!)
As for Halloween we’ll have a great time even though the Hannah Montana wig is “so messy, Mom”
“It doesn’t look like Hannah Montana’s wig, Mom”
“That’s because Hannah has a real wig and not a Halloween wig”
“but Mom!”
So it goes……
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:50 am
Kimberly,
You are so right and our affirmations of abundance serve us when we include time!
Thanks for stopping by!
October 4th, 2007 at 7:19 am
Great post Karen. Time is something we should value, and respect more.
October 4th, 2007 at 10:03 am
True, Alex, very true!
Thanks for stopping by and thank you for your comment!