Don’t Blame Time For Your Lack of Time

Don’t blame time for your lack of time!

You may have a bank account that will make your jaw drop, change cars every year, buy an apartment at the beach, in the mountains, in the best neighborhood in your city. You can also visit Europe three times a year, frequent the best restaurants in the world and wear clothes by the most renowned designers.

If you don’t have time to share moments with the people you love, it doesn’t matter how much your money is increasing. When life improves financially, some people tend to think that everything is perfect.

Perhaps it is if you are the type who values time shared. Otherwise, in my humble opinion, all of this is nothing more than an endless massage to the ego that puts you up there.

I’m not saying that money isn’t important, of course it is. What I mean is that the dollar signs that buy the cool car don’t buy the time you don’t find to give and receive affection.

Affection also has no price and cannot be bought at a dealership. The affection, the donation and the hug stay in a simple little house, almost in the middle of nowhere, on a road where you probably won’t have the courage to put your fancy car.

There are two different points in this story: the guy with the fancy car who learned to value the time spent with those he chose to share the journey with; and the convertible guy who is more worried about securing the next 2025 model, which hasn’t even been manufactured yet but already has a guaranteed space in the garage.

Nothing is more precious than time. Even more so in the world we live in, where time has no time even to be time. Daily rush, hours and hours committed to inflating the chest with “valuable” achievements, more than filling the heart with happy moments to be remembered with friends, with family, with the nephew, with whoever.

These days I witnessed a child asking their father to take them to the park. The man said he would do it next week. The girl retorted: “you said that last week.” Very possibly this guy will say the same thing next week.

Nothing against it, after all, everyone focuses on what they think is most important. Every human being is free to choose what to do with the time they have, right? Of course! I’m just saying that time can’t be bought at a real estate agency, at a travel agency, at the exchange office or wherever else your money is used.

Time and money don’t necessarily have to go together. There are those who have no money, but have time to go to the park.

We also have those who are full of money and empty of time to enjoy their children, for example.

These are choices we make every day. They are ways of seeing life, of valuing what makes us happy, of being happy. Money for me is not so important, because I can eat a hot dog, sitting on the curb, as long as it’s with the person I love most.

The time I’ve been learning to appreciate is more related to who shares it with me than the kind of things I do with it. And in that sense, it seems so obvious to me, money is not related.

There is a way to love time the way it is, so comfortable in what you direct it to. It’s not time that will come looking for you for coffee and cake on Saturday with your best friend. It’s you who finds the time and conditions it according to your priorities.

And we just need to direct our time and observe how others do it. Maybe so-and-so doesn’t have time for you, because life is really busy and there are more important things to solve. Leave the other person with their priorities.

Take care of yours. Adjust the clock according to the hands of your heart and run to the embrace.

Time can be your best friend or just another excuse to say you don’t have time to have time.

Loving takes time, loving takes calm.

Because liking something quickly is for those in a hurry. And the more hurry you have to acquire things, the less time you have to love people.

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This post was previously published on medium.com.

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