I just realized it was Sunday.
It seems that time has just slipped away from me these last few days. There's only 24 hours each and every day to use and spend wisely, or perhaps the opposite. I sometimes think that we overlook the fact at how long a day is, how long an hour is, how long a minute is. I mean, just stare at a clock for an entire minute, completely silent. It truly is a very long time. Equally interesting to think of is exactly what we are spending those minutes doing all day. Take any minute of any given day. What are you doing? In the middle of a text? Watching a video? Listening to a lecture? Or are we even capable of remembering for a segment of time what exactly we are doing from 4:46 to 4:47 on any given day? I guarantee that we wouldn't be able to. Perhaps that shows a little bit of how much we are overlooking our days.
But what about having too little time?
Especially as students, our lives are absolutely stacked with tasks that leave us with little to no time. For instance: school for myself starts at 7:40. At 3:00 when school ends, band goes until 5:15. When I do not have band, work starts at 4:30 and goes until 8:00. From there, it's homework, and then sleep. What about the weekends? Work from 11:00 to 1:30 and 4:30 to 8:00, and band all day Saturdays. That is a lot of time being spent. But, given, there are only 24 hours in a day. What about the days where you have so many things to do, you don't have enough time to do it in? What happens then? Well, unfortunately, that is the situation I've been placed in recently. Robbed of my time.
Bankrupt.
But perhaps I'm looking at it all wrong. Future oriented. Perhaps it isn't necessarily how I am going to spend this time, it is what I have spent that time doing. Perhaps we do truly need time to be ourselves. We can't simply exhaust ourselves. But how are we going to find the time to do that? Well, time is all relative. Of course, a lot of the freedoms we once had from that of summer vacation are all gone, but there is still hope beyond the horizon. Just give it time.
Even if there is no time to give.
