Time is indeed gold

Today I give you the gift of 24 hours. It’s like a lump of clay that you can make into anything you wish it to be. You can let time pass you by idly or you can spend every minute enjoying life, loving others and serving Me. So what will it be? - GOD

I’ve met a lot of people thru social networking and I am amazed at some of the stories of people who at their middle age find themselves living a life of emptiness. Some of these people are like zombies. Lifeless… Not knowing where they are, not knowing where they going. If life is an airplane, they are the pilot, but they are the type of a pilot who runs the plane automatically, in other words auto-pilot. They did not even know how they took off much less where their destination is. They simply do not have any goals.


I believe life is a series of goals.  As a student many years ago, like just 10 years ago. (haha). I remember when I was in in grade 6, my ultimate goal at that time was to finish grade school and graduate so that I reached the secondary level or high-school. Now let me ask you something, did you also have the same goal as I had during these times?


When I reached high school, with all the excitement of having “barkadas” and crushes, my ultimate goal at that time was to graduate and reached college. Again, did you again have the same goal as I had during these times?


Now college came, I took up engineering, it is a 5 year course. Let me tell you something, I really didn’t know why I took up this course. You know why? Because it was all math!! I’m not good in math, but I love airplanes and really wanted to be a pilot but I felt that my parents could not afford to make me study flying so i took up engineering instead. 


Here is where I realized that in college you don’t really need to be always smart or “matalino”. Because most of the time, you just need to be “mata-linaw” to pass. You need to have 20/20 vision in order to look over your seatmates test papers. (guilty?) I had a great time during college, lots of crazy things happened during those days. But behind the fun and excitement, I still did not loose my focus on my goal, and that is for me at that time, to graduate and finish my studies.  So with sheer effort, blood, sweat and tears, I passed the course and got my degree.


After college, I’ve set a goal of finding a job, and after just a few months, I got hired as a passenger service agent and worked at the airport.


The next question hit me


What next? Ito na ba yun? This is it? Am I stuck here for next 10, 20 or even 30 years of my life. I was able to ask that question because one of my boss who I believe at that time was already in his 60s is still, working for the company. Dito na ba ako tatanda? (Am I going to grow old here?) When I asked these questions to myself, I suddenly became afraid, and because of my fear I began to be paralyzed.  


Now  the reason why I shared my story to you Is to let you know that, we should not let fear stop us from our setting goals. Their is a saying that the poorest person on this earth is not the man who has no money, but the man who has no goals.


Start setting new goals. It is hard to get thru life without ambitions. Just imagine you getting dressed up in the morning wearing your fancy clothes and expensive perfume, your hair neatly combed, shoes shined then you go out the garage and you ride your BMW. The problem is inside the car, with engine running you ask yourself, where am I going?


Seize the day


There is one thing that both rich and poor people have in common. That is time. We all have receive 24 hours in our life each day. Nobody has 25 hours. The only difference is what do with our time.


Do we spend the whole day just staring out the window? Daydreaming? Wishful thinking? Or are you like some of the employees I know who just simply go to work with a zombie face, doing things like clockwork, thinking to themselves, “what on earth am I doing in this company?”. They spend a lot of time looking at the bad, either they’re gossiping or complaining, they complain about their husbands and wives with their office mates Then after shift ends they go home to complain again. But this time they complain to their spouses about their boss. Ironic isn’t it? But the problem doesn’t end there. The problem is they continue to do this everyday. As in day in and day out.


Friends time is a gift, I suggest you live your life and the only way to do that is that you have to be intentional. There is so much joy to give, so much love to share. God has given us a lump of clay which we can mold to whatever we want. He has given us this wonderful gift called time. Let us not waste it. Please do not forget that we are all living in borrowed time.


Time is the only commodity that no amount of wealth in this world can buy.


Aim High, live life, love GOD!




Ludwig Weigand