The value of Time
My grandparents came to visit us for a few days. And, yes, … in their old age, they both STILL love to travel. They’re blessed with good health and I’m really glad Anya still gets to know her great grandparents (Their age difference is 84 years!!).
My grandpa told me that at their age, they’d like to enjoy life while they still can. They love to travel and that’s why they still go around the world so very often to visit their kids and other relatives. They go on cruises too. They hardly stay in one city for more than 3 months!
People live their lives according to how they understand the concept of time. Lots of people spend most of their adult lives working really hard. Perhaps, 16 – 18 hours a day.
And (consciously or unconsciously) It’s because they believe ‘Time is money’ and that ‘Money is everything’.
There’s even a saying here in Singapore, ‘No Money, No Honey!’. (read: money comes first, then … love!’).
Rev. DR. Stephen Tong shared this concept of time and its value, that I find is very true.
> Time is Life. One has time only when one is alive.
> Time is Opportunity. Only when we’re still alive that we have the opportunity to live our live to the fullest, the opportunity to make the most important decision concerning our own eternal life.
> Time is a Record, because every single thing that we do in life doesn’t go unrecorded.
We’re all busy everyday. Taking care of our kids. Working. Studying. Running our hectic lives day by day. And I just hope that we are all reminded of the value of time, how we’ve been using our time so far, and how we’ll use it more wisely from now onwards.
