Do you ever feel like time is slipping away? For whatever reason, ever since the age of 25, time has felt completely different. Since then, I’ve been more than a quarter of a century years old. What a significant milestone! All jokes aside, I do think everyone has a point in their life where time becomes more real to them. It could be a mid-life crisis moment, when adulthood starts at 18, or in someone’s 80s. The important point isn’t when it happens, but what happens when it hits you.
No matter what you do, you can’t get time back. You can get more money, more friends, or more stuff, but time is an unmovable concept that continues whether you like or not. We all know that, but the moment we internalize it is when our life changes. Fully accepting our limitation of time is freeing. Just like rules, whether they are the ones we grew up hearing from our parents or the laws of our country, it gives us a boundary and an odd sense of openness because we know what we can do inside those rules. Once our limit is understood, we can decide how to react. Limits create freedom.
What do you want to do with your freedom? Is there something you want to do more? Is there something you want to stop doing? You have a limited window to make it happen, and there is no time to start like the present. If you use your freedom to the maximum and make some mistakes, I almost guarantee you that you will be more grateful that you tried than wondering if you would have. Make the most of the time that God has given you, because it is one of our most precious gifts.