400th Post: Remember the Value of Time

Imagine that you have a bank that deposits $864.00 (86400 cents) into your account every morning. However, at the end of the day, the bank takes away all that remains in that account. If so...

The money you did not spend will go to waste.
What would you do?

Of course you would withdraw all the money and spend it, right?
Time is like this imaginary bank.

Every morning, we get 86400 seconds to spend,
and every night, the time we don't spend wisely just vanishes into thin air.
There is no remaining balance. You can't spend more than the allotted either.

Every morning this bank will give you that exact same amount,
and Every night, the remaining money is destroyed.

If you don't spend the money that day, you are the only person who lose.
You can't go back, and you can't put it off until tomorrow.
You are only living with the amount given to you today.

For your health, happiness, and success, use the maximum you can.
While time flies, we must exert our maximum effort to spend it well.

If you want to know the price of one year
Ask a student who flunked a year of school.

If you want to know the price of one month
Ask a mother who gave birth to a premature infant.

A week's worth can be told by weekly magazine editors.

If you are curious about the price of one hour
Ask a person who waits for his/her beloved,

The price of one minute to a person who missed the train

The price of one second to a person who barely missed a fatal accident

The price of one-thousandth of a second to the runner who has to settle for the silver medal.

Because you value every moment given to you
And because you have shared that time with
the special people worth your time investment
These moments are so precious.

It is common logic that time waits for no one
Yesterday is already a past history, and the future cannot be known.

Today is the gift given to you And that is why we call the present (now) a present (gift).

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