"Time Flies"

Of all the clichés I’ve ever heard that one has to be the most overused. Claudette reminded me this morning that it’s closing in on a year since I started this thing. Three hundred and ten days of training and 310 days of proselytizing. And still time marches on. Why do we care, and will we ever manage to stop caring and just accept the inevitable? Obviously we care because time is not infinite, or at least for our physical being, and presumably we’re enjoying our selves so much that the fear of an end to it all stresses us. Does what we do with the time allowed us make a difference, or in the end is it just a state of mind we need to discover, regardless of how we pass our days. Actually I think that argument bears some weight. If you accept my earlier contention that we worry about time passing too quickly when we enjoy ourselves, then we are faced with the troubling paradox that the solution to our worries about time flying, is simply to stop enjoying life. Hmmm?

I conclude that the answer lies in discovering the right state of mind, but it also seems to me that how we spent our time will determine whether we ever get there. Further to that however, how we spend our time in a physical sense is only half the battle and perhaps the lesser half. It occurs to me that how we spend our time thinking, or dreaming, or praying, may be even more critical.

You know that after 310 days of putting together some kind of BS every day I start to wonder if I have repeated the same discussion many times over. Or worse than that, I wonder if I have completely contradicted myself at various times. I suggest to you that it is a real possibility and maybe one day I will go back and read it all. When I find all that repetition or contradiction you know what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna laugh at myself, comfortable in the knowledge that after all I’m just another idiot…BUT…. an idiot who will have done an ironman!

I wish to dedicate day 310 to Cameron de Haan who scared his parents and shouldn’t do it again!

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma-which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Don’t let the noise of other people’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”---Steve Jobs

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity”---Henry van Dyke

“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams”---Jeremy irons

love
peter