The Shape of Today

Treasuring Time

A kindly soul stopped by here expressing a hope that I will continue my "five minute" entries. I certainly will do my best, though as I found out yesterday life has this annoying habit of getting in the way. A glowing orange "Service Engine Soon" light on my dash turned a routine errand into a detour to the oil change shop, making the routine errand quite a bit longer than I'd originally planned. But these things happen. And as always, time escapes like sand through my fingers. It's funny like that.

I had a college teacher who absolutely loathed the expression "killing time". Some thirty-odd years down the road, I understand his perspective better now than I did then...we should treasure every moment we have to spare in our lives. We already have many demands on our time...family, work, sleeping, eating. When we finally get some to ourselves, we should never "kill" it. Spend it doing something that brings you joy...whether that's painting pictures or just sitting on your porch watching the birds play in the birdbath doesn't matter...what matters is that it enriches you on some level.

As Gandalf told Frodo, all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.