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Time is an interesting concept, it passes slowly if you watch it, but when you don’t pay attention to it, it passes quickly!

As a child, when I couldn’t wait to be a teenager, it felt that time would never go by and birthdays seemed to take an eternity to arrive. But as an adult, it seems as though the years just fly by.

So what’s the truth, do we need to hurry or rush to get things done so that time doesn’t fly by?

The answer can be found in nature. Plants and animals don’t stress about getting anything done, they simply allow whatever comes along, without any fuss, worry or drama.

Have you noticed how you feel when you’re rushing around getting stressed out from too many things to do in too little time? It doesn’t feel good, on the other hand, when you take the time to enjoy what you’re doing and trust that everything will get done in it’s own time, that feels very good.

To put things into a perspective that you may not have thought of, imagine this.

Person A is constantly running on adrenalin, eager to fit as much into life as possible (some would consider this person a go getter and high achiever), the strain on their body depletes so much energy that they die at 65.

Person B has learned to allow life to be fine as it is and flows with what feels good in the moment (it means that certain things don’t get done and to someone looking in, they may think this person is slow or a procrastinator), Person B dies at age 90.

Obviously this is a hypothetical scenario and there are many factors that go into when someone will die. However, the point of this is to highlight that time in itself is an illusion, getting more done in a shorter space of time does not necessarily mean you’ll be better off, it simply gives you the illusion that you’re getting more done. It’s a lot like the story on the hare and the tortoise, speed doesn’t always win in life.

It reminds me of a story, when I was 4, my mum told the primary school that my birthday was in June (instead of October) so that I could start school a year before I was supposed to. In theory, this was supposed to help me have an advantage by having the opportunity to start my career a year earlier. Well, as it turned out I had to repeat year 11, thus putting me where I was supposed to be. I don’t know how things would have turned out if I had started primary school at 5 but I can only speculate that possibly the extra maturity would have meant that I wouldn’t have dropped a year later on. We can sometimes think that we’re taking a short cut but in the bigger scheme of things we’re not at all. Life works in mysterious ways!

A final point I want to make is that when it comes down to it, it’s all about quality of life in this moment, not sacrificing this moment now for the hope of a better moment tomorrow. You find that tomorrow has a tendency to never come in these cases.

Angelo Campione

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