every minute~

Time passes by very quickly, like the sands of time flowing downwards in an hour glass. The sight of the sand trickling down the hour glass never seizes to capture my attention and my fascination of how sand in a glass can epitomize time.

Time is a simple yet complex. It tells more than what time it is now, it tells age, it can tell duration, it can tell even size, it can indicate growth. Time is not an element that one can control like water or fire. Time is uncontrollable and that's why we are forced to work within the limits of time granted to us so graciously by God. Even we are forced to bow down and work within the limits of time when it comes to work deadlines.

Within our limited knowledge of time, we measure it by way of seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades, centuries, eons, and so on and so forth. Till this very moment I type this post, passed time slips into the pages of history. I can hear the clock ticking behind me.

You'd probably realise that when you are doing something really enjoyable or simply enjoying the company of someone, time really flies. Just like the blowing wind while walking in a park during a warm evening. Like the wind, you wish it could last forever. Like the wind, it makes you want to reach out to it and just hold it close to your bosom. And time, like the wind, you can't make it your's to own.

I've come to appreciate time and my experiences a lot more over the past few weeks.

A simple dinner and movie outing, even a coffee table top conversation were somethings that I really took to heart as a heart warming, honest to heart, wish-I-could-pause-time moments. Every minute spent during those times were happy memories in the making and I hold them safe and dear to my heart.

I never really took a moment to appreciate such things before, to smell the coffee. Just trudging on the path of time doing mere "activities". Now, I close my eyes, just rewind back to those happy moments in my mind and I can safely tell myself, "I'd do it many times over if I can".

I look at friends who have wonderful kids, time spent with the kids are such moments that don't happen everyday. Your son or daughter can only be a year old once in their lives, miss that first year and you miss it forever. The joy of completing my first cello concerto was one of the most satisfying moments in my life that can only happen once. Even getting a date with someone I have fallen head over heels for, is one of those "YES!!!" moments in my life, worth treasuring.

Every minute is worth treasuring when you get a go at a precious moment in your life. It could be a wide variety of moments but when you have an opportunity to have those moments, appreciate it, treasure it and keep it close to your heart because the minutes that go by never comes back....................