Time is a strange thing. As we age, we understand that even more acutely. I often think back to a conversation that happened in the good old Parkside cafeteria during my time there. My high school best friend said over a plate of OUTSTANDING IN HER FIELD Where did the time go? by Sarah Harrison, Co-Owner of Mazak Farms
fries and gravy, “Time is so weird. Like, there goes another second, and another and another. We can never get those back.” I don’t know if she was mature for her age or being a goofy 15-year-old – either way, she wasn’t wrong. With the fresh slate of a new year, we all tend to think about time more than normally, and as we are doing that, time is passing. So, what are we waiting for? Why do we keep waiting for things to be ‘right’ or to have ‘more’ or for someone else to be ‘ready’ before we take action? Time is passing whether we take action or not. If there is something you want to explore, do, or experience, do it now. The time will pass whether you do something with it or not. What we do to reach our goals or dreams doesn’t usually happen all at once, even though most of us expect it to. Why do we do that to ourselves? We often get stuck in a place of waiting instead of doing. Waiting to save more money, waiting to find the right moment. In that waiting, time is moving; it never waits. As that time is moving, we could be moving with
it, in small, measured, manageable steps. We don’t have to do everything all at once; moving slowly but with purpose is often more sustainable, and before we know it, we end up where we wanted to go because we used time. Most of us have probably had the experience of not using time wisely. I definitely have! Those moments of ‘man, if I had signed up for that course when I first found out about it, I would have been done by now’ type of moments. So perhaps with the New Year laid out in front of us, we stop ourselves from experiencing those types of regrets and go for it, because time is not going to wait for you. Keep being outstanding in your field.
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