I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. - Golda Meir
Happiness comes from mastering what we can do with our time. Not just how we endure it, nor is it about escaping the time we are provided with. Pardon the advertisement after the video. But it was too good to pass up. I think this expresses something really important. It is a personal belief of mine that time is way too important to mess things up, or not spend it wisely. While we are here on this Earth, growing and learning should be are constant and daily goal. We should enjoy all the things that happen to us, yes even the bad things, and look for the best in everything.
Let me set the stage for the video you're about to see. In a 1950s (ish) setting there is a Mechanic named Walter (Tim Robbins). One day a car pulls in to be serviced driven by a couple that is engaged to be married. But Walter falls in love with Catherine, the engaged (played by Meg Ryan). She forgets her watch at the mechanic shop, and he (having taken her address to call a cab) takes it to her home. Only to find that Albert Einstein (Walter Matthau) is her uncle. The following ensues while he waits:
Happiness comes from mastering what we can do with our time. Not just how we endure it, nor is it about escaping the time we are provided with. Pardon the advertisement after the video. But it was too good to pass up. I think this expresses something really important. It is a personal belief of mine that time is way too important to mess things up, or not spend it wisely. While we are here on this Earth, growing and learning should be are constant and daily goal. We should enjoy all the things that happen to us, yes even the bad things, and look for the best in everything.
I was reading a talk recently about this specific subject:
"Time is never for sale; time is a commodity that cannot, try as you may, be bought at any store for any price. Yet when time is wisely used, its value is immeasurable. On any given day we are all allocated, without cost, the same number of minutes and hours to use, and we soon learn, as the familiar hymn so carefully teaches, “Time flies on wings of lightning; we cannot call it back” (“Improve the Shining Moments,” Hymns, no. 226). What time we have we must use wisely. President Brigham Young said, “We are all indebted to God for the ability to use time to advantage, and he will require of us a strict account of [its] disposition” (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young [1997], 286)." -- Elder Ian S. Ardern "A Time to Prepare" (October 2011 General Conference)
It is so important that we think about how we spend our time.
Joshua 24:15 defines (in a broad sense) how we should spend our days:
"And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."
This to me defines part of why I came to earth almost 23 years ago. I came to this Earth to gain 1. A Body and 2. Experiences to help me grow Faith in the Lord and the Plan of Happiness that He and Our Father created before we came here. Life is more than just existing. It is growing, and because we are only natural, getting up after we fall down.
To quote the hymn, just like Elder Ardern, "Time flies on wings of lightning; we cannot call it back" (“Improve the Shining Moments,” Hymns, no. 226).
