I always remember the words on this poster when I hear of someone that I know has died: “The trouble is you think you have time”. Time. 365 days. 1440 minutes in a day.
We use Time to measure the length between now and the next Sun rise.
Funny how when we are pressed on our schedule we say… ‘we don’t have enough time’… and I’ve pondered – what if I knew today was my last day would I really be concerned about meeting some deadline, would it matter? Maybe not? Maybe I’d do things with even more Love, more Gentleness. Or would I cancel all the appointments, drop everything and sit out in my yard under a shade of a tree and listen to the sounds of the planet. Taking in and enjoying the gentle experience of the human senses. The thought of truly embracing all – can be quite intoxicating… the sounds, and the texture of the grass, the heat of the air, the gentle breeze, the colors of the trees and the sky – or, the feeling of holding and hugging someone you love, taking in their whole being in the embrace – these thoughts move me deeply.
It’s interesting when I see life in that perspective… the problems of the day and the world, don’t seem relevant to my singular existence. The deeper I go on that thought it’s as if the joke was on me for not realizing sooner the continuum of things. Yet as I hold onto the thought of -‘if today was my last day on this Earth’ -somewhere deep inside I am stirred by every good memory of Love, Compassion and Kindness that I shared with others – all the other stuff, things that I thought were big deals… vanish in the light of Love.
As I ponder on that quote “The trouble is you think you have time” – all I ask is, what is it that I truly need time for… and the answer comes as a gentle whisper: Love. When we look back at our life… what we really see is how we loved. How we loved others, how we loved learning, how we loved ourselves and how we loved ‘being’… everything that we did and not do is the by product of how we loved.
“The trouble is you think you have time”. Indeed. Time to love more. Time to love life, Time to love oneself. Time to love this beautiful planet and all the beings on it. Time– for– Love.
