“How? How is the year already halfway over?” I thought to myself “There is so much I want to accomplish this year and it's going by way too fast!” Panic sets in. “By the time my nephew graduates high school I’ll be an old man. If I don’t start making huge moves, I’ll die a failure. I’m already an old man, I should have had success in my early twenties. It’s already too late.”
So I panic and desperately start trying to find a way I can use EVERY second to my advantage. I get so focused only on how much time I have lost, and how to stop letting it slip through my fingers.
But… Time can’t be jarred and hoarded. Once the present moment passes it immediately becomes the past. And the more you focus on losing time, the more time you lose, desperately trying to capture and tame something that can never be caught.
So instead I focus on how grateful I am for the time I have been given, and know that the only way to make the most of it is to treat each present moment like the gift it is.