What is time? How do you spend your time? Is it "your" time or somebody else's time? Time is a word that limits us as human beings. Most of us believe that if time would give us enough of its own, we would do plenty of things in life.

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the word time? Time defines the duration of things from the start down to the end of them, right?

How would you feel if you had enough time to do things? If time wouldn't exist would you be comfortable? Would you be relaxed, unstressed, anxious or worried?

Try to think of a day in your life when time doesn't exist, a day when you don't have a clock. Imagine that the only clock you would have during that day would be the sun. How would you feel? What would you do first? Who were you keen to visit or be with? How would you do things? 

Most of us would be relaxed, let life happen, and we would embrace all the experiences of that day. We would do things in our timing. Would we do things in full-speed mode to finish them all?

During our lives, we are celebrated by our parents, starting with our first birthday, our second, the third and so on. Even if we do not remember much of our birthdays, we continue to celebrate the time passing every single year. 

Over time we see ourselves in our adulthood life. We find someone we love, we marry, become parents, and then begin the same cycle of celebration for the little humans that come along. 

Time is passing, and we cannot pause it or stop it. We see our children grow, and then we become grandparents.

When people retire they ask the same question: How has time passed? We often look at the clock and build our planning around it. We try to achieve multiple things and use our time on projects, jobs, etc. Eventually, our time becomes the project's time, the achievement's time, and somebody else's time. We work hard most of the time. Time, time, time... 

Some of us struggle with the fact that we age, but we never ask ourselves: How would I love to age? Would it be spending time doing just work or building a life that fulfils my body, mind and spirit?

Ageing is correlated with time passing. 

Embracing the passing of time is essential. We can have a beautiful journey here on Earth by doing so.

Try to look at nature and the passing of time over it. The cycles take their course, and nature seems to be of no concern with time. Nature embraces the seasons and everything that comes upon it.

Let's take the Cherry Tree as an example. This tree is a role model which has a wonderful time over time. In spring, it has a splendid bloom. 

When this tree is in full bloom is one of the most glorious trees present in nature. When the cherry flowers begin to fall, they gracefully dance until they reach the ground. Even when they are down on earth, they create a beautiful, gorgeous pink/white carpet of flowers. The cherry tree's leaves start to grow while the flowers fall, and then, they keep, their green and colourful shades for the longest time.

When autumn arrives, leaves do not fall quickly, they stay up in the tree for a long period compared to other trees. The leaves change their colour in the most beautiful shades of ochre, yellow and sometimes red leaves.

When winter comes, this tree embraces the passing of all the other seasons and prepares to sleep for another beautiful season. When we look closely at any tree in nature, we should learn from its wisdom and embrace the time passing. Every season we go through is coming, so we can learn new things about ourselves, and about our lives. These valuable lessons build up our character and help us thrive.

When you keep on looking at the clock, stop for a minute and think about how you want to live your life. Are you going against the currents of life or going along them?

How can we accept that we are here on a journey? Remember that time is relative. Our human journey might be limited, but our soul journey might be infinite.

How you spend your time LIVING is the key to acceptance of the time passing.

When our minds can comprehend the miraculous way in which we exist as human beings, we will not be concerned with time passing.

Then, we will feel that life is a journey which must be embraced fully. We will only be concerned with Living our lives wholeheartedly.

 We will rejoice in creating wonderful memories, and we will be grateful for each struggle of ours. Live today like there is no time, and when you think of the time passing, rest assured that it was for your evolution. It was for building you into the person you are today. 

As Haruki Murakami said: "No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away."

My invitation to you all is to write them down in your memoirs to re-read them when you have "less time". When you do that, you will feel that you will live your whole life again. Love each moment as it comes because time as we know it is precious and should be used to build up memories that make us feel human.