The Time Bank

86,400 seconds are deposited into our accounts every day. They can't be accumulated. How did you spend yours today?

It may sound gloomy to say that each minute we live brings us closer to the day we will die. But it’s true, inescapably true. Not one of those things you can make go away if you don’t think about it. Instead of pushing it to the back of our minds how much more we could get out of life if we were constantly aware that each minute that goes by is gone forever and we are the ones who choose how they go.

“Unsaid words
Wait
For the right time
Unless time
Triumphs”

To go to bed at night with a sense of satisfaction that the day’s minutes have counted for something worthwhile. Did you call up about those dance lessons you wanted to start? Talk to your old parent in the nursing home for 5 minutes? Spoke from your heart to a friend? Clean your toilet? Read some illuminating manuscript? Run around the block? Give your loose change to a door-knocking appeal? Whatever makes you feel satisfied or fulfilled is all you need do to spend your minutes fruitfully. Did you waste minutes eating junk food or watching crap on TV? Whatever you do sticks, you can’t undo your actions except by wasting more minutes – to get excess weight off you’ll need to spend some of your precious minutes working on a way to get it off when it would have been easier not to have put it there in the first place! You can’t wash garbage out of mind once you have indelibly etched it into your memory. It’s simple really, the old ‘you reap what you sow’; put good quality into your life and you’ll lead a life that makes you happy!

“Why I wonder
Do the loves that bind me
So greatly, so tightly
Constrict my chest
And stop me dancing.

It will soon be too late
To wonder or curse the fate
That led me to this shore
Where I can’t dance.”