Time is Individual

 

 its late. 4 am. the night. or should I say morning before my final and I can't seem to sleep, Ima is crashing in my bed with me, as I can't sleep I put on the song Little Wonders and sing along to it. "time will wash away, but these small hours still remain". this song makes me think about life, it's just one of those songs that make you realize that life only exists in the moment. it's like a quote I like from a book. "We foolishly live in the alotion that any other time then the present is able to make us happy" we are only alive in the present moment that is the only place in which we exist. happiness is a feeling experienced by existence, meaning an emotion of happiness can't be felt without an existence to feel it. meaning happiness only exists when we exist. and we only exist in the present moment . so why do we foolishly believe that any other time can make us happy other than the now? we look back at the past idolizing moments, and looking at the future idolizing its protentional to make us happy. but why do we rarely look at the existing moment and acknowledge the existence of happiness. not many moments in your day to day life seem to be considered happy moments. but if you stopped for a moment and didn't think about the past (what happened yesterday, and what she said) and didn't think about the future (what will I do tomorrow and what I have to get done) not think about a different place (I wonder what she is doing right now) and only acknowledge to present moment, as simple and plane as it is. you can feel happiness by just acknowledging the existence of now. just take a breath and look around you at what is around you. and only think of that. you will see that the now is an limitless source of happiness that you have access to all the time. you just must choose to use it. if you don't look at the now time will wash away. you will blink and it will be gone. time feels well used when it is lived. that is the measurement of how a person feels time passes. If a person lives every day of their life in the now. If they are full living life, they will feel they have a very long and pleasing life. because when you live in the now, every moment feels filling with life. when you don't think of any other time then the present the moment is all you need to be fulfilled. but when a person spends there full life in a different time but the now they are constantly chasing the fulfillment  therefore they are not participating in life. and that is what they talk about when they say. " You blink and your whole life passes before you" because you spend your whole life not living, therefore the actual time that is felt that you are living is very short. you forget to acknowledge to moment and life flashed before your eyes. time is relative to how we spend it. For example: it's like when you are waiting for a text from someone. you send your crush a message that you like them and are sitting by the phone waiting for them to respond. that time you are sitting by the phone and waiting is so long, every second feels internal regardless of the amount of time that passes on the clock. but when you scroll on your phone time passes quickly and before you know it an hour has passed on the clock even though you were just planning on checking a message. time is individual and we all experience it differently based on our emotions and our choices. because I chose to text my crush that I liked them followed by the feeling of anxiety waiting for them to answer, I extended time. because I chose to not control my phone addiction instead of doing something productive with my time, I shortened my experience of time. two people can live a measured time of 80 years. one of them could have had a very long life and the other could have had a shorter life, regardless of the years counted on the calendar. time is individual and those not pat the same for everyone.we can chose how long we want our life to be. life is only short if you make it short. the years will pass by only if you let them. 

Little Wonders - Rob Thomas  This is the song that I quoted. " time will wash away, but these small hours still remain". This is a song that I grew up with and I think its defiantly worth a listen.