Rethinking Your Thoughts on Time.

The age old adage “familiarity breeds contempt” is in full force in some areas of your life and you don’t even know it.

Something I have been thinking about lately is time and how we define it and participate in it. Yesterday as a people we absconded 2’s day from its rightful owners 200 years from now in 2/22/2222. But then again, was it even 2’s day yesterday? Was it even Tuesday? These are titles, names and measurements we have applied to time to be able to keep track of what is going on in our lives. 

Let’s play a game of acceptance.

First - Accept the universe is about 14 Billion years old.

Second - Accept the Law of Conservation of Mass, which states mass can neither be created nor destroyed, only changed in form.

Accepting those 2 things to be the case, that technically would mean that what makes each of us up at an atomic level is 14 billion years old. So, we are all 14 billion years old in different stages and ages, of our atom’s having a human experience. 

This got me thinking about “what day are we actually on then?” I feel our familiarity with time and our calendars robs us of what actually takes place. The moment happening now has never happened before, I don’t care if you call it 9:02 am on Wednesday. Every moment that occurs is a brand new one occurring all throughout the cosmos, and we get to participate in it.

So what day are we on? Here is some simple math; 14,000,000,000 years x 365 days in a year = 5,110,000,000,000 days. So let’s consider this day 5 trillion, 110 billion and one. This is the raw edge of time. It is the position we should operate from in order to take in all the information necessary to be intentional and make solid decisions. Your atoms have been around for every second of it. Your experience of life as a human, is only a minor blip on the screen. However, from where you are sitting, it is the only part you have the opportunity to be intentional with. 

What kind of impact do you want to have with it? Your collective atoms will one day disperse into other things, only having the residue of who you were remaining attached. What do you want to pass on? How do you want to say you carried your electrons? 

With a 1/400 trillion chance of experiencing life as a human, you have quite the unique opportunity in front of you. Life is not what happens to you. That’s only part of the story. The cumulative of life is what happens to you, what you make happen on purpose, and how you respond to all of it. This is where your focus needs to be in order to have the greatest life and impact possible. 

A good life happens in your mind first. To be able to think your way through all that life serves up and remain steady and standing through it all can only be accomplished by becoming a good thinker and problem solver. Your mind does not come built this way, it only comes with all the parts necessary to build it. It is completely up to you to put them together.